Sentences with phrase «as a trilogy of»

Rocksteady have taken their time recreating one of the most iconic cars of all time and the pressure was certainly on to do it justice as their trilogy of Batman games draws to a close with Arkham Knight.

Not exact matches

It plans to release a new trilogy of Star Wars films as well as some additional spin - offs based on individual characters.

Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas» Lucasfilm in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.

As a new CEO, you suddenly have top managers work for you, says John Stanton, chief executive of telecommunications firm Trilogy International Partners.

Pretty impressive, especially since this doesn't even include the Lucasfilm Star Wars movies (the third trilogy of Episodes 7, 8, and 9 plus spinoff movies) which I am looking forward to as both an investor and Star Wars fan.

Brand VP Andy Goeler refers to the new ads as a «trilogy» that will expand the brand's «Game of Thrones» - inspired universe with new characters.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

Reuters: Pope Benedict's third book on Jesus reaffirms doctrine of his virgin birth Pope Benedict published the last part of his trilogy on the life of Jesus on Tuesday, delivering an early childhood narrative which strongly reaffirms the doctrine of the virgin birth as an «unequivocal» truth of faith.

Lewis, who reportedly wrote the series as part of a deal with J.R.R. Tolkien (who is supposedly to have written a time travel story as his end of the agreement), uses the trilogy to write a fantasy from his own unique perspective.

As a final word, it is also interesting to note that The Space Trilogy technically takes place in the same universe as The Lord of the RingAs a final word, it is also interesting to note that The Space Trilogy technically takes place in the same universe as The Lord of the Ringas The Lord of the Rings.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

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.

Blessedly, in the aftermath of the election, I had the occasion to revisit Madeleine L'Engle's fantastic Genesis Trilogy, as I've been asked to write the foreword for a new edition.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

I was just doing this as part of my trilogy; it started with Buddha and then Jesus, and now it turns out serendipitously that the timing is appropriate because there is so much discussion about Islam in the world.

C. S. Lewis, in his three masterful Space Trilogy volumes, reminds us frequently that the inhabitants of Mars, the hrossa, view the inhabitants of earth as «the bent ones.»

As in the Deptford trilogy, it is Davies's genius to show us the degree to which the shape of a childhood provides a haunting pattern of apparently unending richness, at least for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

The film version of the first book in Pullman's trilogy, The Golden Compass (published in the United Kingdom as Northern Lights), was released last month.

As I mentioned in my post, «2016 and the Risk of Birth,» in revisiting Madeleine L'Engle's Genesis Trilogy, I've been struck by how forthcoming the author is about her own fears around raising children during the Cold War.

I never set out to write a trilogy on our increasingly endangered democracy, but as I kept stumbling on ever more evidence of the legacy of the imperialist pressures we put on many other countries as well as the nature and size of our military empire, one book led to another.

Bubbling under the surface of the story is a subplot of national revolution; one which takes centre stage as the trilogy continues.

[3] By identifying, as Fr John Sivalon alleges, a «trilogy of the demonic: secularism, relativism and pluralism» Pope Benedict «dreams of a re-established, romanticised culture of Mediaeval Europe».

Many of the central characters of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «goatherd.»

I suggest that sexual intensity (such as that experienced between the lead characters of the «Fifty Shades» trilogy) is simply not the same as intimacy.

Apparently if someone reads me the whole lord of the rings trilogy I have to worship Tolkien as my new god or i'll be sent to mordor.

When one reads such novels as Couples, Marry Me, and the trilogy of Rabbit Angstrom stories, one has the feeling that all American marriages are doomed to failure — or at least to some kind of uneasy peace.

He says he views the first three Father John Misty albums as a sort of informal trilogy, but there's likely at least one theme that will carry through to the next one: lyrics that ask questions.

References to past books of the trilogy would be lost, as they were on me, if not read in order.

I suggest that we have to reconsider the relative importance we give to the earlier works of Whitehead (the so called pre-systematic works), to the more technical «trilogy» (SR, RM, PR) and to the post-systematic works (such as AI and MT).

I also read the Lord of the Rings trilogy where as the two chronicles / trilogies have many things in common.

Don, I respectfully reply that I have always loved the first two volumes of the «Space Trilogy», (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra), and went looking for a pine forest at the back of my closet when I first read «The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe» as a little boy.

(CNN)- When a friend alerted me to the «Fifty Shades» trilogy in April, none of us had any idea it would sell in excess of 40 million copies within months, or that sales of whips, chains and other BDSM paraphernalia would skyrocket as a result, or that a European hotel would replace its Gideon's Bibles with «Fifty Shades of Grey.»

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.

The trilogy as essentially a use of fiction employed to express «stark realism» (his words).

It is undeniably true that children are drawn to the hobbits because of their diminutive size, but it is truer still that we keep reading Tolkien's trilogy as adults because the hobbits» struggles are our own.

That said, I do happen to regard Bishop Wright as one of the most effective apologists for Christianity in this dawning century, not so much for his Simply Christian as for his magnificent trilogy on the historical Jesus, especially the last volume, The Resurrection of the Son of God.

as i was eyeing through some of his old soccer trophies and books, i happened to see the star wars trilogy of our youth - we're talking 4,5, and 6 here, folks (which we haven't seen in far too long because our blu - ray of them disappeared during our move!).

He'll sell the trilogy match as the most important rubber match of all time, and you fookin» buy it... With your money.

Deploying the format used by Nige Tassell in his recent book The Bottom Corner, as well as an approximation of the approach of Michael Calvin in his recent trilogy of volumes, Hughes devotes a chapter each to the majority of the North West» senior clubs, tackling matters through the lens of a single interviewee and interlacing that person's thoughts with his own impressions on the fortunes of a club, both current and historical.

British writer Philip Pullman, creator of the His Dark Materials trilogy of children's books set in a dystopian alternative reality, described Trump as a «savage».

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Finally, the Electoral Commission needs to recognize that its integrity and reputation have been seriously called into question by the Abu Ramadan & Evans Animako trilogy, especially with respect to the list it produced claiming only 56,772 NHIS registrants on the register of voters, as against the total 14,031,000 voters on the register.

The name Frank Underwood was both an acknowledgement of the original trilogy's protagonist Francis Urquhart and to the US political system itself, as Oscar Underwood was the first ever party whip for the US Democratic Party.

Stephen Hawking publishes children's book Stephen Hawking, wheelchair - bound physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, this week published his first children's book in an expected trilogy, designed, he told reporters, to make «real science as exciting as science fiction.»

Purveyors of petunia varieties with names such as Trilogy Mango and African Sunset were likely unaware that orange - pigmented petunias are the product of a prominent biotechnology study.

Editor's note: Kim Stanley Robinson is a widely acclaimed author of novels with strong science and scientist characters including the Mars trilogy, Antarctica and The Years of Rice and Salt, and he has won a number of prestigious awards such as the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the worlds J.R.R. Tolkien created; I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy until I had long stretches of it memorized.

According to research by Trilogy, six out of 10 women believe that people expect online photos to have been retouched or have a filter applied, yet 61 per cent of Australian women do not see the use of a filter as a form of retouching.

(If you somehow haven't heard of the trilogy, you probably will soon: It's being billed as the next Hunger Games.)

Showcasing some of the world's leading natural skincare and make - up brands such as Trilogy, Weleda and Viridian, the evening saw celebrity make - up artist, Roisin Derrane, share and demonstrate tips and