Sentences with phrase «fiction works as»

Fiction works as an empathy workout, these studies find, helping bosses better understand diverse viewpoints and boosting their EQ.

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«As a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, told Inc. in JanuarAs a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, told Inc. in Januaras a business, I'm not sure,» John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, told Inc. in January.

«As a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» says John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIAs a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» says John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIas a business, I'm not sure,» says John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

Assange and his WikiGang were extremely vocal about their hatred of the movie, which they called a complete work of fiction, and even released their own documentary as a free download to compete with the Benedict Cumberbatch vehicle.

Remind yourselves that a current SEC Commissioner STILL gives speeches labeling Flash Boys as a work of fiction.

HotAirAce, you posted «Given that The Babble is a work of (bad) fiction, learning the history of any of the characters in it would be about as useful as learning the detailed history of the Hobbits.

This is why I am trying to understand how you and Dawkins both take a work that you both claim to be fiction yet you reject the main character (God) as defined, accepted and understood by the writer and the audience of that day.

Given that The Babble is a work of (bad) fiction, learning the history of any of the characters in it would be about as useful as learning the detailed history of the Hobbits.

If you grasp that simple concept, why on earth would you post quotes from this work of fiction as if you think that it is going to be considered a meaningful point?

The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

What is somewhat discomfiting about Percy as dialectician» and the dialectical is the principal aspect of his fiction, as well as central to his other work, including his interviews» is his seeming inconstancy in holding the advocates of tenderness to account in their various causes, even those separate from euthanasia and abortion, those other causes to which he himself is committed.

C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien struggled with these issues intensely as they worked on fiction that reveals an underlying layer of Christianity.

To find out facts, you refer to people to a work of fiction and you acknowledge it as such.

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.

i'm not going to go see Moses unless Charleston Heston makes an appearance; not to mention the whole story is a work of fiction and their passing it off as a real event.

She works as a freelance writer by day, poet and fiction writer by whenever life gives her a few free moments.

Way ahead of its time, as far as works of fiction go.

McCarthy emerges in her fiction as a moralist, and friends who recognized themselves in her work (Philip Rahv in The Oasis, Edmund Wilson in A Charmed Life, her Vassar classmates in The Group) naturally bridled at her judgments.

In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.

Perhaps I ought to be more surprised at his omission of historical fiction, including that of Madeleine Polland, written from a deeply Christian perspective; she wrote such works as Beorn the Proud, now available in reprint, and my personal favorite, The Queen's Blessing, set in the time of Saint Margaret of Scotland.

Her work as an academic philosopher has dealt extensively with the figures and issues of that period, and in her discussions of fiction she has expressed particular admiration for the great novelists of that century, including Jane Austen, George Eliot and Leo Tolstoy.

A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field: «the durable canon of American short fiction» (William Styron).

Just throw it away, treat it as it is, a work of fiction, like ANY other book written about Zeus, Apollo, Thor, Odin, or any other «god».

Girard began in the early 1960s, with such works as Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, by explaining how triangular relations form among characters in fiction.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Distinguishing works as fact or fiction is a social judgment, a judgment derived from criteria rooted In one's social system.

The Bible should be taken as the work of fiction that it is, but with some good moral stories thrown in there.

as the bible is a complete work of fiction, and is totally meaningless in how we live our lives, there is no relevance to be placed on one word of that book.

I understand them very well, I just don't believe them to be completely factual and to be a work of historical fiction interlaced with magic, miracles and mumbo jumbo that the people of that time would have taken as fact but were merely unexplained phenomenon.

Even THEN it is still a work of fiction, edited by humans for readability as well as content (how many «lost books of the Bible» were left out on the whim of the «church» who was threatened by them?????????) Since this is likely boring folks I will not start on the Church (capital C, not lowercase C)!!!!!! My 2 cents is all — for what it is worth.

On the fiction front, I have Not Working by Lisa Owens ready by my bedside, as well as The Vegetarian by Han Kang.

This great book is basically two works for the price of one, providing not only an engaging fiction story for your child; but a cognitive behavioral guide for parents to use with their children to alleviate feelings of anxiety as well.

«Given the # 50m figure is a work of fiction, this is a political Ponzi scheme with Dominic Cummings acting as Vote Leave's Bernie Madoff.»

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

Clegg himself dismissed it as essentially a work of fiction on today's Politics Show.

Your paper's Discussion section must provide a feeling of resolution to the conflict created by your results, in much the same way as a work of fiction ties up loose ends and provides a feeling of resolution.

There might be purists who'd argue that what Crichton writes are better classified as techno - thrillers than works of science fiction, because drawing petty distinctions is what being a purist is all about.

«The big promise of such work is its ability to give us a sense of something like the entirety of, say, 19th - century fiction, rather than the small percentage of canonical texts that are usually taken as exemplary,» says Dames.

For example, he says, Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy was released in serial form as a work of «popular» fiction, but has since attained the status of a classic.

As a control, they also mapped the social networks for modern works of fiction: Les Misérables, Shakespeare's Richard III, The Fellowship of the Ring, and the first book in the Harry Potter series.

As it happened, I'd written a science fiction story that seemed like it might fit — it was about a couple of researchers working in a dusty lab who stumble upon a universal cure for cancer (you remember I said science fiction, right?)

«As a scientist researching passenger pigeons, I routinely search for new books on the subject, usually overlooking works of fiction.

Nine years ago I graduated with an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University, divorced, and transitioned from my role as an at - home mother of two young children to a working single mother and long distance parent.

Known as a prolific author of more than eighty books with twenty - two New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than forty languages.

I am a retired civil engineer working on a second career as a science fiction writer.

Annihilation is best viewed as a trip deep into an otherworldly house of horrors, offering a deliberately illogical twist on the formula of horror movie storytelling — because when assessed as a science fiction movie, its lack of weighty ideas makes it pale in comparison to both its influences and Garland's prior work.

Surprisingly enough, Jack's motive for hating Christian and Ana is not that Ana became a fiction editor at a publisher and her major contributions, as seen in this film, are finding an author named «Boyce Fox» (could've sworn my accountant worked at Boyce Fox) and increasing a font size by two points.