Sentences with phrase «fantastical place»

The exhibition opens with a series of photographs that present otherworldly pink landscapes, suggesting Congo as a fantastical place.

A fantastical place of fear, desire, refuge, conquest and decay, the North has played an increasingly important role in the work of contemporary artists interested in the socio - political issues of colonization and pollution, as well as aesthetic notions of the sublime.

It's largely a tale of conflict, both internal and external, and it's something that appears to drive this odd, fantastical place from the moment you pick up your sword.

Simplistic in his beliefs and pure evil in his actions, Manx preys on children, picking them up in his menacing 1938 Rolls - Royce Wraith and taking them to a fantastical place called Christmasland, where it's Christmas every day and from where the children will never return.

But best of all, the land where he catches and jars those dreams is a fantastical place of light and curiosity.

Instead, he finds himself on a labyrinthine journey through fantastical places and even through past centuries in search of the one he thought to be the center and fulcrum of his whole existence.

It was as basic as the genre could come, with simple turn - based combat, and a story that more served the function of transporting you around towards fantastical places rather than propelling you into conflict with the cardboard - cutout villain, or exploring any social or philosophical themes.

«So, we knew we wanted to make a game that took you to fantastical places.

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Disenchantment will take place in a fantastical medieval kingdom called...

So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.

Until there is proof, I can't bring myself to believe in something so fantastical and out of place in nature as life after death.

Even in the fantastical realm of children's fiction books, reality may have an important place.

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For a world like Wakanda, painted with fantastical colors, inventions, and tons of CG creatures and backgrounds, the image quality on this disc is superb with not a pixel out of place.

According to the creative team, Tomorrowland refers to a mysterious place that is being compared to the futuristic equivalent of a certain fantastical institution.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children also reunites Burton behind the camera with his Dark Shadows and Big Eyes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, whose knack for creating glossy visuals through his film work (by utilizing soft shadows / focus shooting techniques) looks to serve Burton's upcoming film well - in particular, during those scenes that take place in the fantastical setting where Miss Peregrine and the «Peculiars» live.

What we get instead is often very deliberately mundane: The future fashions and gadgets brandished as a sci - fi convention seem oddly simplistic and mechanical, the action set pieces (if one can even call them that) are pared down to the basics, and even the overtly fantastical game environments look like normal places in the real world.

Dragon Quest takes place in the fantasy world of Alefgard, the fantastical home to people and a host of creatures.

A fantastical female character unwittingly drinks a potion that a male character has placed in a beverage and while she is unconscious he mutilates her body (by cutting off her wings)-- the act is non-sexual with no explicit detail seen.

In something like Kill Bill, which plays like a complete fantasy taking place in a fantastical world, where airplanes come equipped with places to hold your samurai sword, it's different because I'm coming from a complete genre place.

You know The Snowman takes place in a fantastical alternate reality because every time Harry Hole introduces himself, no one laughs for five solid minutes.

What You Need To Know: Director Edgar Wright ends the so - called Cornetto trilogy with stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost again placed in a fantastical situation.

The Book of Henry by director Colin Trevorrow is so fantastical that it could never truly happen and that's why I place it straight into the magical realism category that his first major feature Safety Not Guaranteed is in.

But the studio has never created a place as fantastical and down - to - earth as Wakanda, the African nation first depicted in comic - book form in 1966 — and the first place in Marvel's movie travels that's as good as the brochure describes it.

Compared to the fantastical worlds that were created for earlier films such as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, which were all inspired by elements of our world, The Incredibles took place entirely in locales where humans were the key characters, and the scenes were shot from the perspective of humans.

Most of all, the film, like del Toro's 2006 masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, plays simultaneously as a fantastical dream and as a story set in a very recognizable time and place.

The film also tries to inject some dreamy more fantastical elements into the proceedings, but doesn't do enough of them to present a theme so they seem out - of - place.

The tale of a young girl from Kabul, it captures the grim realities of life under the Taliban and is spiced with a fantastical folk tale that wouldn't be out of place on the pages of Scheherazade.

They give the gift of stories that take the reader away to fantastical times or places, tales that can be blood - curdling or heartwarming, adventures that capture the heart of the season.

-- but one that seemed to encompass the kind of books we wanted to offer: fantastical fiction with a sense of the magical and spiritual, written with a literary sensibility, by which we mean fiction with a love of language and an awareness of its place in the literary canon.

Fantastical worlds are great places to find nuanced characters, well - developed settings and complex prose.

Laini Taylor beautifully blends the real world — Prague, and trust me, by the time you finish the first book, it's a place you'll be dying to visit — and the fantastical world of Eretz.

When writers create fictional settings — whether made - up towns in familiar places, or fantastical worlds we never dreamed possible — they have the ability to manipulate everything...

Fans of historical fiction will be drawn to The Miniaturist, a fantastical tale from British debut novelist Jessie Burton that takes place in 17th - century Amsterdam.

The game features play areas that take place on the surface of fantastical planets as well as outer space.

Lightning may not strike the same place twice on Earth, but it must in one of the fantastical worlds that populate Nintendo EAD Tokyo's Mario Galaxy series.

The Tenth Line The Tenth Line is a console - style RPG featuring a colorful cast of characters, unique battle and level - up systems, quick 2D platforming action, and an original, fantastical story about friendship, faith, and finding your place in the world.

«Most game stories are about some fantastical context, you know, even something that takes place in the real world is really pushed - like GTA or Tomb Raider or whatever.They're mechanically extraordinary individuals in extraordinary situations.

While many of the powerful scenes have a great deal of symbolism, presented in fantastical and surreal ways, the most moving moment in the entire game simply takes place as the main party is gathered around a campfire.

The game takes place in 2020, but most of the beasts are more fantastical in appearance (a few like Ploguraz and Micara are clearly inspired by Assyrian and Persian mythology).

From the glittery rock - covered Coral Highlands to the fleshy and horrific Rotten Vale, all of the small open - world hubs that the monster encounters take place offer their own fantastical flavour.

There are many secret compartments just for our hero, places for her to hide away her hopes and fears, dreams of a fantastical bygone era where she once had strength to unabashedly be who she is.

The resulting image places the viewer within one of the artist's unique fantastical landscapes built through careful placement of color, texture, and line.

Through her examination of power, she places one foot in the past and the other in the fantastical space of the epic, creating fictional narratives that simultaneously seduce and implicate the audience.

As artists respond to the possibility of global environmental chaos, Mark Rappolt examines Tomás Saraceno's Aerocene project, one of the artist's most ambitious imaginings yet The Truth about «Cultural Appropriation» With controversies over cultural appropriation regularly in the headlines, Kenan Malikargues that trying to control what culture artists can and can not use is bad news for political interaction and artistic imagination Power in Black and White In an America where the dividing line of race is now a cultural and artistic flashpoint, Jonathan T.D. Neil searches for a path beyond both pluralism and white privilege Carol Rhodes «Rhodes's landscapes are unlocatable because they are fantastical... They are «nowhere places».»

Wong's portraits (many of them set in New York's East Village) place hustlers and other denizens of the gay demimonde in the fantastical context of devotional Christian painting, with an element of fond caricature that recalls his early days as a street portraitist in California.

The images and installations act as a catalyst for a fantastical exploration of the psychology that one attaches to memory and place.

His paintings are populated by fantastical characters and wildlife placed in eerie, otherworldly settings.

Carol Rhodes «Rhodes's landscapes are unlocatable because they are fantastical... They are «nowhere places».»

The fantastical nature of the lush setting also conjures thoughts of that racially charged no - place, the jungle, which postcolonial critics like Chinua Achebe have identified as the primordial hellscape of the 19th - century European literary imagination.