Sentences with phrase «described fictional characters»
He described fictional characters as being like circles — abstractions.
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The Indian - born author's book, «Joseph Anton,» describes the nine years he spent in hiding, after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced him to death in 1989, for basing a fictional character on the Prophet Muhammad in his novel «The Satanic Verses.»
The characters and events described in this diary are fictional — honest.
If anyone involved with the project ever thought the caregiver in the book sounded rather strict (Mary Poppins is described as «practically perfect in every way»), they are about to learn that the fictional character is nothing compared to the woman who penned her.
In many cases comic personal accounts of Ndalianis» experience of the horror sensorium compete for space: analysis of de Certeau's Practice of Everyday Life is combined with description of its manifestation in the practice of consuming contemporary media culture (her childlike joy at controlling Batman who she describes as «the greatest fictional character ever invented»).
This week the guys get in on the game of using three fictional characters to describe themselves.
One reality is made to spill into another, and some of the loveliest developments — the humanizing of a disgruntled baker (Lyle Lovett) who we've encountered mainly as the disembodied telephone voice of a crank caller, and a mix - up of snapshots between two clusters of characters at a Fotomat — can be described as exercises in dialectical relativity that come about when separate fictional worlds in the movie are briefly made to converge.
Fictional characters in a project workshop might be described in the same way as literary critic, Sheila Egoff, describes characters in many current teen novels: they are «defined by the terminology of pain.»
In Dark Aemilia, Sally O'Reilly takes Aemilia Lanyer (sometimes spelled Emilia Lanier) for her choice of Dark Lady and weaves a fictional love affair between her characters that fits with the story of love and recrimination described in the sonnets.
I have a list of cards that describe certain personality types drawn from my observation of the folks around me and I use these as background to my fictional characters in order to imbue them with a sense of verisimilitude.
When a game is described by the developers as containing «surly gelatinous characters, brutal mêlée fight sequences, and absurdly hazardous environments» with the action taking place in a fictional place known as Beef City, you know it's going to be fun.
To test this, we gave people some fictional stories describing realistic scenarios where the main character had an affair, and then either confessed to their partner or kept it a secret.