Sentences with phrase «as fantasy on»
And I don't know what qualifies as fantasy on this list but William Gibson has written books in this century.
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Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.
The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the industry faces a crackdown by U.S. states over whether it runs illegal gambling.
Once the venture is profitable, then the next step would be to branch out to more teams and build out the website to accommodate users that want to create their own designs, such as putting their drafted fantasy football players on the same shirt.
However, state lawmakers held 2016 hearings to debate a proposed law that would define certain daily fantasy contests as games of skill and remove them from the state's overall ban on cash - based fantasy games over the internet.
or you might as well put that book on the shelf with the other childish fantasy books that idulge the child like maybe «The Wizard of OZ.»
like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.
The more one reflects on this eventuality — and certain morbid symptoms such as the existentialism of Sartre prove that it is no mere fantasy — the more one comes to the conclusion that the great enigma presented to our minds by the phenomenon of man is not so much how life could ever have been kindled on earth as how it could ever be extinguished on earth without finding some continuance elsewhere.
As a report on the fantasies and ecstasies of the day, his statement is certainly correct.
They built their whole society around the fictional fantasy capers on the show and glorified the heroes as divine.
If, on the other hand, the fantasies are used as cause to harm others, or to stop people from seeking truth, then I pity those lost fools and I cry for humanity.
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.
Among a group of professional journalists (all of them women) discussing the show on Slate, only one is willing to go so far as to say that Adam's rape fantasy is a «distasteful phenomenon.»
As Dreamworks sends Shrek into the ring to take on Disney for the children's fantasy market, Mark Greene considers the use and abuse of fairy tales.
It bothers us because politicians and special religious interest groups don't believe as your alleged Jesus man believed and want to control the population based on their book of fantasies.
It's all fantasy... you might as well be quizzing people on Grimm's Fairy Tales.
For a variety of reasons, some based on fact and some on fantasy, many non-Christian majorities regard Christian presence as a threat, or at least as the sign of a particular geopolitical agenda (linked with the U.S. or the West in general)-- despite the long history of Christian minorities in many such contexts.
I view the belief in god now as some sort of «veil of ignorance» — not stupidity but some sort of mechanism, defense, shield that keeps the fantasy alive inside and keeps reality at bay on the outside.
Of course all views are welcome on the site... In regards to me, as much as I do love an element of fantasy in my life, whether it be in art or interior design, or the way that I dress, etc., I chose not to live in fantasy when it comes to something as important as the existence of God.
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.»
Vast treasures have been spent by a bankrupt United States on the Strategic Defense Initiative, an adolescent fantasy of total protection that scores of serious scientists have scorned as both dangerous and meretricious.
I believe that when Bishop Niederauer and many others caution against thinking of homosexual orientation as the cause of sexual abuse, they are asserting that we, and the Vatican, would do better to focus less on the content of a person's sexual fantasies and more on his or her ability to control his or her sexual desires.
He came to focus increasingly on the resources of the unconscious as revealed in myths, symbols, art, folk tales, dreams, and fantasies.
On Sunday, October 7, as the United States began at last its air strikes against the Taliban, I was on an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantasOn Sunday, October 7, as the United States began at last its air strikes against the Taliban, I was on an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantason an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantasy.
All religions are misogynist and based on delusional fantasies (and shifting their economic burdens onto nonbelievers as with property tax exemptions in USA)..
The tetralogy's reputation as a fantasy rests mainly, I think, on the first volume, the only one that continues to be published separately from the rest of the cycle.
Taking cues from illustrious nightlife districts around the world, District Perrier is part fantasy, part reality, featuring an original content hub on Tumblr as well as a creative retail marketing strategy.
They might as well put some fantasy price on his head — something like 800 gazillion martian - gold bricks.
DFS edge: As mentioned on the Week 13 Daily Fantasy Flex pod, Raiders TE Jared Cook is a potential chalk lock against the Giants, who have allowed the most fantasy points to tight ends with 17.1 DraftKings and 14.0 FanDuel PPG.
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I also have him as captain in fantasy football so im relying on him to play aha
It's tough to put quarterbacks on the list as sleepers because everyone knows who the starting quarterbacks in the NFL are, especially fantasy football players.
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....
On the flip side, if you view the Sanders comeback as a progressive fantasy that has no shot of actually taking place, you shouldn't place your bet on Hillary right now, as her odds are sky - high (she is currently -240 to win the White House at BetOnlineOn the flip side, if you view the Sanders comeback as a progressive fantasy that has no shot of actually taking place, you shouldn't place your bet on Hillary right now, as her odds are sky - high (she is currently -240 to win the White House at BetOnlineon Hillary right now, as her odds are sky - high (she is currently -240 to win the White House at BetOnline).
Alexis should also be very high on the shortlist to be included in your fantasy team, as he is relishing his new role in the side, but there is the possibility that Olivier Giroud could well be selected to play up front now he has returned to fitness, and the Chilean could suffer if he is benched or put back in his previous role.
A receiving floor this high is unfair when coupled with Gurley's plethora of fantasy - friendly opportunities on the ground, as he's converted a league - high 18 carries inside the 5 - yard line into a league - high nine touchdowns from that distance.
As expected, she looks simply delicious, and we wouldn't be surprised if these shots prompted her current boyfriend — 41 - year - old Hollywood star Bradley Cooper — to get down on one knee and make the fantasy a reality.
He has some promise as a pass - catcher out of the backfield, but he does not have enough guaranteed touches on a weekly basis to be fantasy relevant yet.
On the Week 15 Daily Fantasy Flex pod, my bold call was that Foles will finish the week as a top - three fantasy quarterback.
Dream on mate, As our nightmares are more closer to reality than all these fantasy signings of the Draxler's and like.
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TCG is also making a primary capital investment into The Action Network to build out the management team and brand as it aims to offer an all - encompassing subscription and editorial platform for those who speculate on sports and fantasy players of all types.
The Foxes can no longer portray themselves as being on a fantasy ride with nothing to lose at the end — there should now be disappointment if they do not win the title.
Even without starting quarterback Carson Wentz, the Eagles scored 34 points in Week 15 as backup Nick Foles took just one sack and dished out four touchdowns to four different receivers on 38 attempts, finishing as a top - four fantasy passer.
Yes, there can be a pathology to women like Friedman who fall for an inmate; many have a «wound,» as Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside author Bridget Kinsella says or have a «need for a safe, idealized, romantic fantasy of love» that «transcends judgment» as Women Who Love Men Who Kill author Sheila Isenberg says.
Whatever type of doll house kids choose, the same kind of fantasy role - playing goes on inside the miniature walls, as did when we were kids.
Psychoanalysis focused on what it regarded as the resolution of childhood fantasies, which Bowlby regarded as real life experiences.
The emotional affair works on recreating the fantasy of being with her as she did in the beginning of their relationship, however there is tension between them due to his intensified guilt over his distraught wife, which ironically makes him feel more emotionally connected to his wife.
And none of Trump's «boys» as you say have been arrested, that's just pure fantasy on your part.
On Monday afternoon, the idea that Labour might become an effective, unified political force under Eagle was exposed as the fantasy it always was.