Sentences with phrase «fictional character works»

Fictional character works too.

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These newest results boost the case of the those who argue that immersing yourself in a fictional world populated by layered, complex characters can't help but increase your understanding of how the human mind works and make your fellow humans a little less strange to you.

«We are paying you to work, not chase fictional video game characters with your cell phone all day,» reads the note.

Lots of fictional works have unique central characters.

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

When realize an important point about life and work from the fictional characters in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe I just take the message to heart.

I would like the story better if she gave the credit of her success to her own intelligence and hard work rather than a fictional character in an ancient book.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The fictional character of Ted Brown represents a young man who comes from a religious background, who is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life, is sensitive to spiritual values, and who seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

The work, while «real» according to the BMJ, has at times been impossible to test or based on fictional characters and traits.

Approved by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, it includes names proposed by the New Horizons team and pays tribute to explorers, futurists, and fictional characters.

He may just be the greatest character actor working today with a resume to prove it playing everyone from Sid Vicious (Sid and Nancy), Beethoven (Immortal Beloved), and Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK) to fictional characters like Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula), Commissioner Jim Gordon (The Dark Knight trilogy), and Harry Potter's Sirius Black.

The characters work at Empire Records, located in a fictional small town in Delaware.

Next is «It's Bugsy» (4 mins., HD), another one of those infuriating docs wherein the cast and crew fawn over some animal / fictional character (in this case, the bug - eyed gerbil that accounts for a good 40 % of Bedtime Stories» attempts at humour) as a big star who was great to work with.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

So here's the thing: If «Gold» is almost entirely fictional, why did Matthew McConaughey feel the need to do elaborate character work and, in the process, make a grotesque spectacle of himself?

The couple - who have been in a relationship together since 2007 - first worked together on 2012's «Ruby Sparks» which was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from a script by Kazan, and followed an nervous novelist (Dano) whose fictional character, Ruby Sparks, (Kazan) is brought to life.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

Nintendo's Super Mario video game franchise, and protected along with the audiovisual work, images, and fictional character depictions from, including but not limited to, the following U.S. Copyright Reg.

Moments that might strike childless viewers as schmaltzy — like the audience's last glimpse of Richard Kind's Bing Bong, a character who seems to have grated on David but whom I regard as one of the great fictional creations of the year — provided my 9 - year - old and me with our first - ever experience of weeping together over a work of art.

Ideally, the fictional character should have a relatable appearance, for instance, a mandatory work uniform.

Judged against Grisham's fictional works, The Innocent Man compares well, his prose style is tight and fast - paced, the extremely large cast of characters are sketched succinctly and courtroom legalities are explained in a style simple enough for the layman to follow, and we're left in little doubt about who are the good guys and who are the bad....

For the sake of this tutorial let's assume the following four fictional characters: Vivek Patel, working in the United States, an...

TO ENTER: Leave a comment on this post telling us which fictional character or work of American literature has most influenced you.

As a writer, I'm in total control of my work and the fictional world in which my characters live.

Stone figures of Sir Walter Scott's characters from his fictional works adorn its numerous niches, from Ivanhoe and Friar Tuck from «Ivanhoe» to Rob Roy and Helen MacGregor of «Rob Roy.»

These characters live in the fictional world in which most of my work is set.

Hiromi Tsuru, well known for her voice work for the Dragon Ball franchise as a popular fictional character named Bulma.

Her most influential performance work is» Roberta Breitmore «(1973 - 78)-- the fictional character that she, then three subsequent female personas, enacted in real time and space, using artifacts of the time.

She studied theater for two years in Barcelona, something that really influenced her present work, where fictional characters act as personages in her «plays».

Besides her best - known series of works centered around the fictional character of Roberta Breitmore (1973 — 78), Hershman Leeson is also the creator of Lorna (1979 — 83), the first interactive videodisc, as well as the first to use touch - activated screens in Deep Contact: The Sexual Fantasy Videodisk (1984 — 86).

Co-curator Rujeko Hockley thinks Ojih Odutola's use of fictional characters mines a more limitless trove of perspectives to convey multidimensional messages in her work.

Currently at MASS MoCA, the artist presents his largest exhibition in the U.S., a vast body of work that features recurring characters including himself, his friends, fictional superheroes, politicians, and film stars.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the gray in between.

In this essay by Hans Ulrich Obrist, originally published in Phaidon's Defining Contemporary Art, the esteemed curator discusses No Ghost Just a Shell, the groundbreaking collaborative work that put the pair on the map and introduced the art world to AnnLee, one of the art world's most famous fictional characters of the early aughts.

His previous works have portrayed rock stars and fictional characters in energetic portraits that relay the artist's painterly skill.

Originating from these sources, the work often features recurring characters, including himself, his friends, fictional superheroes, politicians, and film stars.

Atsushi Kaga's work depicts a fictional world inhabited by a cast of invented characters.

What / Why: «This exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who invent mythological beings, fantastic creatures, allegorical figures, fictional characters, and personal avatars to both humble and heroic proportions in order to critically engage and challenge concepts of otherness.

They're not portraits, but representations of fictional characters, their arresting postures, the style in which each is painted, suggest different works by old and 19th - century masters: Caravaggio, Velázquez, Degas.

What follows is what appears to be a fictional review of Henri de Marsay's «latest work» — a fictional character from Balzac's The Human Comedy — who was given five out of five stars by the «reviewer» and writer of the press release, SICKLUCY.

While the manga - style characters continue to appear in Mr.'s work, their significance has shifted from playing up lolicon — the fetishization of young, fictional female characters — toward a more platonic realm, known as moe, or love for an icon that does not carry sexual associations.

Her body of ceramic works has received much attention, with designs influenced by the 1980s and imagery of cartoon animation with fictional characters such as dinosaurs.

Both artists comment on sociopolitics using fictional characters and both place the human at the centre of their work.

Julie Becker's work is often based on the obsessive imagined intimate details of fictional characters.

In these works, Graham is playing a series of fictional characters, but this can also be considered a form of self - portraiture.

In the art world, inhabiting a fictional character in order to produce work is not new.

Many of Prouvost's film and installation works center on the character of her lost «grandfather», a fictional fellow artist who «didn't really like conceptual art — he liked making bottoms».

Kerbel was nominated for her operatic work Doug which narrates a series of hapless accidents that befall a fictional character using audio recordings, performance and printed matter.

The exhibition continues with earlier works including The Bronx, 1980, where Calle asked residents of the south Bronx in New York to take her to a place of their choice, and her collaboration with American novelist Paul Auster in 1994, where she becomes one of his fictional characters.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between.