Sentences with phrase «because fictional beings»

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At the same time, without all of the science - fictional trappings of years past to impress and distract, it's never been more obvious: Facebook needs you, because without your relationships, there's no Facebook at all.

NathanL: «I suggest you go read it, because all I'm seeing at the moment is classic liberal vitriol aimed against a fictional» shallow» evangelicalism.»

I suggest you go read it, because all I'm seeing at the moment is classic liberal vitriol aimed against a fictional «shallow» evangelicalism.

You can't provide it because it is a fictional story.

Just because we generally acknowledge that the Tooth Fairy and Harry Potter are fictional doesn't mean that refusing to do so with gods lends them any more credence.

Because it is a fictional story.

Umm... I won't argue with you on Santa, because he's fictional.

Not because a book of what we feel are fictional stories tells us so.

Because religion is a belief in something fictional, it can mask insanity.

«Christianity, just like every other religion is nothing more than a fictional narrative its adherents choose to believe because they find it more appealing than the other alternatives.»

It doesn't matter because it's a fictional story, and episode 1 sucked anyway

Disney characters are allowed to have happy - ever - afters because they're fictional.

Because someone dear to the beliver told them this fairy tale and they can't handle the truth that their religion is fictional tall tales because they think, most likely their parents would tell them something that isn't bogus butBecause someone dear to the beliver told them this fairy tale and they can't handle the truth that their religion is fictional tall tales because they think, most likely their parents would tell them something that isn't bogus butbecause they think, most likely their parents would tell them something that isn't bogus but it is.

It's sort of childish to pretend that it's because of some (in my opinion) fictional character.

Third, you can make them whatever you want because both are fictional characters.

The cross is controversial because it honors a terrorist aka fictional jesus who wants to send atheists to hell.

You can go «celebrate» whatever fictional characters you want in YOUR house, just don't let it spill on to the street because that's when the neighbors have to get involved.

Hey just because you're too weak to find meaning in life without a fictional character telling you what to do doesn't mean that the rest of us are the same way.

To which I would say, by that standard, Socrates was a fictional character because he is only mentioned in the writings that are attributed to Plato.

Because a god might exist... but it isn't the man made religious stupidity found in the fictional bibles and other religious texts on this planet.

This fictional encounter illustrates the relationships between sex, personal pronouns and forenames (we are concerned with third - person pronouns only — He / Him / His and She / Her / Hers): it may seem impersonal for Andrew to have initially referred to the child as «it», but he used that word only because he did not yet know the child's sex.

I mean... if I convince a homeless guy to do my $ 10 / hr job (the fictional company won't hire him directly because he has no permanent address, a very REAL situation), but I only pay him $ 1 / hr and keep the rest... it's my $ 9, right?

Elizabeth Lynam, with the budget watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission says the surplus is, at this point, «fictional,» because the money has not actually materialized yet.

If it sounds familiar, it's probably because you remember it from an old episode of Seinfeld — but a paper on the (totally fictional) disease just fooled the reviewers of Urology & Nephrology Open Access Journal, according to Retraction Watch.

Like the fictional Star Wars planet, Kepler - 34 (AB) b is a circumbinary planet, so - called because its orbit encompasses two stars.

Because after a century of bogus meritocracy based on crude vertical assessments of an essentially fictional human attribute known as «intelligence,» the science of aptitude testing may be making a comeback.

The Philpott is both independent and imaginary, because, although she wanted the story set in her hometown of Cambridge, Goodman strove to create «a fictional space» rather than getting distracted by having to recreate the details of life at Harvard or MIT.

I have let go of my super fictional views of what being strong, healthy or loving is... I have also let go of fear that loving yourself and putting yourself on the first place means being vain, because it does not.

Which is ironic, because UnReal is a fictional story based on the behind - the - scenes of a fake reality show that's similar to the Bachelor.

But rather than get an answer to this riddle, you'll be even more dumbfounded, because the fictional billionaire in Miguel Arteta's film from Mike White's screenplay is your basic narcissist who might be on the wavelength of people in his 0.1 % circle of Americans but could hardly win the vote of the down - and - out.

Lindsay Lohan is allegedly in talks to play Sharon Tate in Eyes of a Dreamer, which, for anyone interested in the links between the Manson family and Rosemary's Baby, is only of note because she played the fictional Beatles fan Jude in Chapter 27.

The younger heroes — James Purefoy, Jason Flemyng — are fictional, because the rebels were all commoners, so not much is known about them.

An epigraph before the movie warns us not to take anything we're about to see too seriously — probably because, while Hughes was a real figure, the movie compresses various events of his life and inserts fictional characters, eventually taking on the cast of an old, fictional Hollywood narrative closer to Sunset Boulevard than a biopic.

On par with the most compelling courtroom dramas, Brother's Keeper is all the more fascinating because it presents a reality as complex as any fictional plot could ever be.

The story may be fictional, but it's hard not to relate to everything happening onscreen (maybe because we live in a country filled with corruption?).

Still, you definitely have seen this movie in the sense that we all have because this is as generic as any fictional tale of a singer's rise.

The fictional African country of Wakanda is perhaps going through its biggest disaster because it used to be first established 10,00 zero years in the past.

As you may expect, the four main actors in McGregor, Bremner, Miller and Carlyle truly deliver, and the magnetism between the first three, balanced with the fierce presence of the latter, is pure cinematic magic that could only be because of their history, both as well - written fictional characters deeply etched into history, and actors playing them who largely got their break together off the back of the dynamic original.

Despite taking place almost exclusively in the fictional landscape of a game world, what few special effects emerge are, in typical Cronenbergian fashion, physical rather than digital; the one major use of CGI is a two - headed lizard / frog hybrid, and its appearance is genuinely surprisingly more because we're so unaccustomed to seeing anything wholly computer - generated than because of how strange it actually looks — and that effect still holds up remarkably well.

A junior at the fictional Winchester University, Sam hosts a radio show and is full of resentment because of her identity issues.

Start your ARG - engines, because a viral marketing campaign posted to Reddit encourages readers to check out what's going on over at http://tagruato.jp/, a website for a fictional mining company that's been used in previous ARGs leading up to the original Cloverfield — unscrambled, the message reads:

Because the movie takes place while the characters are in and out of performing the fictional Broadway play, you could see how each actor slightly changed from real acting to fictional acting with subtle facial expressions and vocal inflections.

Part - documentary (with appearances from Pekar himself), part comic book, and part fictional biopic, there's nothing quite like American Splendor — a fitting tribute, because there was no one quite like Harvey Pekar.

T'Challa is prince, and later king, of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is blessed with prosperity and technology — because it is the only country that mines vibranium, the super-strong metal that is the main ingredient in Captain America's shield.

A relatively unknown actress has joined the cast of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, the Harry Potter spinoff we still don't know a ton about because it's based on a fictional textbook.

It is here, at this point in the explainer video that we were most shocked because we, like the rest of Twitter, genuinely believed that the accessory worn by the fictional tribe elder was not authentic.

This is one of the most pure types of documentary cinema because we are not actually following the subjects all the time, like in Peter Weir's fictional The Truman Show; we merely check in with them every seven years.

He is a mentally unstable and physically disfigured mercenary with a superhuman healing ability, and is also known as the «Merc with a Mouth» because of his tendency to never shut up and habit of breaking the fourth wall, one of the few Marvel characters aware that he's fictional and part of a comic book.

Probably because the separations between the content areas is fictional at best, and actively damaging to students at their worst.

Asked why, Weil told In These Times, «It was important that the law used be fictional because the film is not based on a specific actual law,» but instead «draws on many situations throughout the country.»