Sentences with phrase «effort at fiction»
When I set about writing my next effort at fiction, I didn't think I had reached a level where I could feel comfortable that my writing was on a close enough par with the thriller novels I was reading.
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This world view might be summarized in the words of Pascal's Pensée 507, which Updike quotes at the beginning of Rabbit, Run: «The motions of Grace, the hardness of the heart; external circumstances,» This epigraph may serve as a brief outline of Updike's literary effort: his theologically concerned fiction seeks to portray (1) external circumstances, (2) the hardness of the heart, and (3) motions of grace.
It's not long before the movie's vigorous efforts to channel Charlie Kaufman and Andrew Niccol, not to mention Ferrell's efforts to follow in Jim Carrey's footsteps, leave Stranger Than Fiction looking rather familiar, not strange at all.
In his growing years as a feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.
Duncan Jones» latest science fiction effort was moderately budgeted at just over $ 32 million, so this will make a quiet profit and cement Jones» cult status following Moon.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Grand - master Rendell at her best is something to be savored by crime - fiction devotees of all ages, and this one, with the promised promotional effort, will find a large and eager audience.
The author spent much time and exhaustive effort to put together a true story that at times moves along like fiction, and presented characters that had me totally engaged.
Hot contemporary romance meets wine fiction... Isabella DaSilva hurtles toward California's wine country in an effort to outrun her past, hoping to lose herself among the vines and make her mark as an intern at a pioneering winery with an impressive reputation.
Some of them (not all) will commend Howey on his fiction and condemn his efforts at nonfiction each time he tries to address a corporate world they claim he doesn't understand.
Our most recent effort occurred in LA at a project space called Public Fiction.
«Territories and Fictions: Thinking a New Way of the World» at Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and «Manipulate the World» at Stockholm's Moderna Museet were two such examples of institutional efforts to buoy artists» re-territorialization of authoritative narratives and stories of dispossession.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his first solo show at Greene Naftali, Peter Halley contends with the new American reality of an increasingly shameless and authoritarian state under which, despite the best efforts of an overstretched free press and an embattled political opposition, the difference between fact and fiction has become increasingly obscured.
There are plenty of efforts to build such a field, including Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer - Range Future at Boston University and the Arizona State University effort I described in this post: «Building Visions of Humanity's Climate Future — in Fiction and on Campus.»
The articles and fiction are first rate, the cartoons without peer, and the overall wash of general and current knowledge truly valuable in my effort to stay au fait — at least at what I think of as the «well - informed lawyer» level (I could never hope to achieve the general knowledge of a librarian!).