Sentences with phrase «as fantasy becomes»

In the end, it chooses the wrong path which leads the story to become more preposterous as it goes on as fantasy becomes more the rule than any reality.

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Outgoing migme chairman Howard Dawson plans to become a director of a Singapore - founded fantasy sports company that is seeking an ASX listing through Nevada Iron, as another Perth company backed out of a tech acquisition because of an ASX ruling.

The chapter on the civil rights establishment, and its fulfillment of Eric Hoffer's maxim that every cause eventually becomes a business and then a racket, is also effective, as is his critique of the «world citizenship» fantasies surrounding the UN and cognate institutions.

But it is impossible to understand what has become of America's Jews, culturally as well as politically, without understanding our experience of those immediately prewar and wartime years — without, to put the case in far too crude but convenient shorthand, understanding the role played by Franklin D. Roosevelt in our communal fantasy life.

There is no truth when it comes to fantasy no matter how elaborate fantasies, such as Catholicism, becomes.

Then the plastic fans started crying for world class players, it's actually fun when the fantasy line ups start popping up during transfer windows on here, it becomes irritating when some on here actually become as stubborn and adamant that the team can not play without these so called world class players, i mean I still see Reus and Hummels and Carvahlo popping up even after the window is shut, I bet if Ozil had not been bought, his name would pop up so very often on here....

What began as a kid's fantasy embellished with props is threatening to become something larger.

As a result, the early rounds of fantasy drafts have become positional free - for - alls.

But given just how badly it went at Sunderland, it looks an awful lot like a delusional fantasy of a time long gone and a manager who failed to change as the world changed around him, then became brutally exposed.

We will continue to update this table as more information becomes available, and we'll be sure to address how any potential disparities in these totals can be exploited by fantasy football players.

As the eldest of 5 and a veteran babysitter my fantasies of holding my very own baby in my arms were about to become a reality.

As your child creates increasingly complex story lines, her play becomes rich with fantasy — often including good guys versus bad guys.

On Monday afternoon, the idea that Labour might become an effective, unified political force under Eagle was exposed as the fantasy it always was.

A 2010 study showed that as a woman's fertility wanes in her 30s and 40s, her sexual fantasies become more frequent and steamier -LRB-!)

Swap the red dress and night time for a white dress and the morning — and becoming the fantasy continues to a place that maybe it'll hit reality as I do have a beauty team working their magic on me so by the time I step out of this new centrally located Hair Blow & Beauty Bar, I might just resemble something a little more vixen - like than what I stepped into BELLESA looking like.

I became a kid again, smiling ear - to - ear as my wildest super-powered fantasies were realized on the big screen.

As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation — less centerfold fantasy than a charming girl - next - door with an impressive capacity for fellatio.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

Players become rockers as they embark on a journey to stardom that the whole family can enjoy as they work their way through local venues, stadiums and fantasy locations on Earth and beyond that mimic the imaginative settings that the LEGO world offers.

As Gandalf (Ian McKellen, Stardust) clambers into creepy caves, Legolas (Orlando Bloom, The Three Musketeers) threatens diminutive sources of disturbance, and Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans, Fast & Furious 6) takes a troupe of strangers into his watery home town, the feature finally becomes the immersive fantasy Jackson and his co-scribes Fran Walsh (The Lovely Bones), Philippa Boyens (King Kong) and Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim) dreamed it would be.

Unfortunately, by ditching the high ground in favor of not - especially - convincing theatrics, the potency of the film becomes diluted to the point where we're viewing the infiltration of these secret cell groups as a fantasy, and therefore don't buy many of their tactics and plausible enough to keep us on the same edge we'd be teetering on if we felt the authenticity through and through.

Fritz Lang's «Scarlet Street» (Kino) is one of his greatest films, a beautifully tawdry noir melodrama of sour lives and curdled fantasies, with Edward G. Robinson as a hen - pecked husband who becomes obsessed with scheming, shallow streetwalker Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea as a vicious pimp who plots to take Robinson for everything he has.

Developer Breakfall will make your nautical fantasies become reality with next week's PlayStation 4 and PS3 launch of Starwhal, a local multiplayer arena combat game that's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.

However, it's not all a fantasy, as Nick soon finds himself painted into a corner by his own misdeeds, as his parents become more concerned, the authorities are after him, and Sheeni's Bible - thumping parents are completely onto his delinquent behavior.

Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's kid - lit fantasy classic not only marks a step forward for diversity — with the film, DuVernay becomes the first woman of color to direct a $ 100 million blockbuster — but for DuVernay as an artist.

Given that wised - up gender politics have largely become the princess - pic norm (as demonstrated by superior recent Disney releases like «Frozen» and «Maleficent»), Marianne's bratty makeover feels more like a sop to convention than anything else, which could also be said of just about every aspect of this thoroughly derivative and unengaging fantasy.

But as the story progresses it becomes apparent that fantasy and reality are somehow intertwined, and Bastian has begun a parallel quest.

As Thomas and Vanda work their way through the play, the film becomes increasingly fluid in its shifts between stage fantasy and life as fantasy, and in the power struggle between metteur en scène and actresAs Thomas and Vanda work their way through the play, the film becomes increasingly fluid in its shifts between stage fantasy and life as fantasy, and in the power struggle between metteur en scène and actresas fantasy, and in the power struggle between metteur en scène and actress.

Just when you think Red Dawn's plot is about as far - fetched as it can get, the movie becomes even more of an adolescent boy's fantasy by turning the six young men and a pair of new female additions (Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey) into capable defenders of America.

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is real and what is fantasy comes in the form of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind of the creator and his audience.A film is a dream of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that film in Lynch's piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).

But if Lili Elbe begins life as a series of fantasy portraits, does that make The Danish Girl a movie about a painter who becomes a living painting, dropping art to work as a shop girl in Copenhagen?

When not imprisoned, Colleen became part of a strange new life as a live - in slave, family child - minder, and victim of Cameron's bizarre and extreme S&M fantasies.

This is where the film leaves the realms of the real for good and becomes much more enjoyable as a fantasy genre exercise, a display of muscles and cinematic violence.

As indicated by the tearful remonstrance of the ex-wife character represented by Cate Blanchett, emotional attachments are doomed to become less concrete or clearly defined, the highs fewer and far between (take the screen time give to Poots vs. the late appearance of Lucas), calling for more extreme measures (Natalie Portman's adulterous character), but always prone to fail since the pursuit of happiness is merely a debauched, self - serving fantasy.

Well, that long - held fantasy looks set to become reality courtesy of adidas, who have recreated the previously - fictional, retro - styled shoe as it appears in the iconic film.

That it stuck to its guns as an offbeat arthouse fantasy message film without becoming cartoonishly absurd was the thing I most admired about it even though, at the same time, that was what made it so tiresome and disingenuous and left me feeling this was more about Hollywood's bogus take on reality than an actual depiction of real - life.

It's a boffo, feel - good start, promising, «There'll be spectacle / There'll be fantasy / There'll be derring do / And stuff like you would never see...» In fact, right under the noses of the three Muppets — who hasten to identify themselves as reporters — elegant fashion designer Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg) becomes the victim of a jewel robbery.

The main character Joanna Eberhart and her best friend Bobbie Markowe watch as their friends change overnight and become «obedient male fantasies.»

What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash, romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.

A sparkling script and charismatic cast injects a new burst of life into a genre that's become pallid and toothless thanks to blood - sucking franchises and adolescent fantasies and, together with Neil Marshall's recent Byzantium, resurrects the vampire as an entirely adult anti-hero.

Thus, Iron Man — originally conceived in 1963 as an anti-communist force of democratic might — becomes the wish - fulfillment fantasy of modern America, a virtuous application of our unrivaled military hardware free from administrative buffoonery and private profiteering.

Harry Segall's play became the basis for a popular film way back in 1941 with Here Comes Mr. Jordan, and while Heaven Can Wait may not quite live up to the classic status of that film, it stands up quite well on its own as a light romantic fantasy.

The fairy tales, fantasies, and musicals that made Disney synonymous with great animation have become a fading memory as the department has adopted irony, allusions, and name casting.

A historical war story quickly becomes a chilling gothic fantasy as the children discover the truth about a malevolent headmistress and fight for their lives — and souls.

Golden - boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in»80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9 / 11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.

As the sisters become more adversarial than familial, June's child life of medieval fantasy runs headlong into young adulthood.

In a fit of bravery, she quit her job as a journalist to become a fantasy writer.

Both Susan and Glenn's previous books with Outskirts Press were also EVVY nominees and award - winners with various contests and those successes became building blocks toward a strong, foundational online presence, as well as a strong presence in their fields (education / math and fantasy fiction, respectively).

My fantasy is that as she gets a little older, the two of us will come up with ideas together and we'll become partners in crime.

Also available is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — as well as Brave New World Revisited, a set of essays written 26 years after his original novel, «in which he meditates on how his fantasy seemed to be becoming a reality and far more quickly than he ever imagined.»