Sentences with phrase «by alien presences»

This is the lasting appeal of Jack Finney's novel, «The Body Snatchers» and why its concept has inspired countless science fiction movies throughout the years - from three versions of the novel itself (in 1956, 1978 and 1994 as Body Snatchers by director Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant fame) to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (finally in 1994) and the 1980s remake of The Thing - all of them dealing with people being surreptitiously taken over by alien presences.

Based on a novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation follows biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) as she and four other scientists (Jennifer Jason Leigh's Dr. Ventress, Gina Rodriguez's Anya, Tuva Novotny's Cass, and Tessa Thompson's Josie) agree to venture into an area infected by an alien presence and known as the Shimmer - with the movie detailing the characters» increasingly perilous efforts at studying the unusual activity inside.

People are drawn to these lights, created by an alien presence.

500 years of peaceful technological process, watched over by an alien presence known as «the traveller», have come to a violent end.

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If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.

7 [Because of your detestable disobedience] your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land — strangers devour it in your very presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

The comments by David Brin and others about broadcasting our presence to aliens leave me doubting the validity of the...

While the research has not yet been reviewed for publication, it is already stirring up excitement in the scientific community and beyond; after eliminating other theories, some suggest that the only explanation for the flicker is the presence of light - blocking megastructures, built by aliens.

Acclimatising audiences to an unknown alien world and the dizzying array of curious beings that inhabit it would be an insurmountable task were it not for the central, grounding presence of Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, the prankish rogue who goes by the self - given alias «Star - Lord».

The process of humanity coming to terms with Superman's alien presence would be fraught enough — but it's complicated by the arrival of a whole bunch of other Kryptonians, led by General Zod (Michael Shannon).

Since most of them want Prophet dead, Alcatraz will find enemies at every turn, and in the meantime the suit is gaining power by assimilating with the alien presence.

A rich subject in itself, the alien body, while given presence enough by the strange sandbox - like terrain akin to Apocalypse Postponed (2014), is allegorically enacted by a performer resembling a pastiche of anime characters and appearing sporadically much to the mystery of viewers.

The Dust Channel, a video by Roee Rosen projected in Gallery 3, explores ideas of purity, containment, contamination and desire through the format of an operetta set in the residence of a couple whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home - cleaning appliances.

Aldrich exhibitions director Richard Klein notes, «Taplin has further dramatized the piece's psychological underpinnings by giving it an alternating day and night character: every day at nightfall interior lighting transforms the sculpture into an eerie and alien presence.»

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: -LSB-...] A person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements of this paragraph.