Sentences with phrase «fiction piece with»

I wrote a post with the very same title as a memoir piece a couple of years ago Thinking of a short fiction piece with a Christmas theme for Sarah's Guest Post, nothing grabbed me — mild panic, yikes!

Not exact matches

The post with a piece of short fiction attached to the product earned bids that were 64 percent higher.

There has been modest tinkering with the Canadian rules over the years, but my Globe and Mail opinion piece notes the law is struggling to remain relevant in a digital age when our personal information becomes increasingly valuable and our consent models are little more than a legal fiction.

In a book replete with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twice.

Its a pretty intriguing piece of fiction, albeit with tons of loopholes.

Do we let every piece of fiction that ends with the phrase «and they all lived happily ever after» ruin our conception of life, just because it's an unrealistic fantasy?

It's the first piece of fiction since the financial crisis to deal not with the technicalities of high finance but with the daily ways in which it is eating into our society.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a science fiction piece, with Star Wars on it, which was okay.

Filmed with non-actors in Pine Ridge, The Rider is a stunning piece of fiction played close to the bone.

It plays like a response to the age of fan theories and puzzle box fiction, in which stories are set up to be pieced together, with every element eventually snapping into place.

The film had great set design and art pieces, but it's not really like a blatantly fantastical fantasy — it is shot and depicted almost like a historical fiction with some bizarre creatures in it.

Though it heavily reworks Bissell's story, the film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose.

As a piece of fiction it does raise issues with real world repercussions, and the film certainly made me think.

In fact, for a film that's based on a true story, «Machine Gun Preacher» is riddled with more clichés than most pieces of fiction.

Hits all the familiar beats — hard - boiled dialogue («We sting because that's what we are»), big action set - pieces, and fully grounded, gritty science fiction elements — but does so with style and real ingenuity.

A chamber piece that perfectly orchestrates stellar character work, razor - wire tension and some shocking twists and turns, 10 Cloverfield Lane reinvents the modern thriller with a dark, science - fiction - friendly twist of the knife.

Each segment establishes its own vibe: the first is dim and claustrophobic, the second is naturalistic with one stark science fiction set piece, and the third ties in with «Black Museum's» frame story, which is shot with a grind house seediness.

Oliva is able to take his long time directing and storyboard artist experience along with screenplay writer J.M. DeMatteis and craft a highly entertaining and gripping piece of Batman fiction.

A chase film with tinges of science fiction in the margins, this is a thriller that does not burden its audience or overcomplicate its narrative with extraneous exposition, allowing you as the viewer to piece many of its mysteries together yourself.

With its wonderfully constrained narrative and stunning vision of a future society in decay, Dredd is a violent and blisteringly compelling piece of dark science fiction.

As a standalone piece, separate from the Alien franchise, this film could have met with applause from fans of somber science fiction, instead of the sneers of those who love the characters and direction as delivered through Aliens.

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn't a genius piece of science fiction, nor is it on par with the original film for sheer audacity.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

But given the title, we're inclined to assume it's a science fiction tale with a Big Idea, possibly linked to a certain large piece of equipment over at CERN.

«The Handmaid's Tale» presents a dystopia; «Alias Grace» is a piece of postmodern historical fiction — one that incorporates fragments of actual historical record with first - person narration and epistolary structure.

Lacking any definitive understanding of how the pieces fit together (or if they ever will at all), we are left with the film itself, which is a passable science fiction thriller with some intriguing, although never fully developed ideas.

Theologians and historians will no doubt shred this interpretation to pieces, but it is an interesting fictional spin on a story that is already layered with multiple fictions.

Shot with a minimum of fuss on handheld cameras, Lindholm lenses everything with a quiet, natural approach that suggests a fly - on - the - wall documentary rather than a piece of fiction.

Both open with abortive space - docking action set - pieces, both involve brief explorative sections aboard the alien Derelict cruiser, and both tread the same hallowed ground of their source films with reverence that is sometimes so close to the films that it can be like playing someone's fan - fiction, in which they insert themselves into the story of the game as a way to replay the movie with themselves in the lead.

From the so called Package, a weekly update of content privately distributed in Cuba, which include a Classics section, I picked out Andrzej Wajda's Czlowiek z źelaza (Man of Iron, 1981), a quintessential piece of auteur cinema, blending fiction and facts in an unprecedented and maybe never again possible way, all suffused with romanticism.

It's hard to explain but Peluchonneau looks and sounds like he emerged from a hard - boiled noir piece of fiction, complete with overheated narration and rear - projection for driving backgrounds.

That leaves us with a realistic period piece (12 Years a Slave), a more flashy and colorful period piece (The Great Gatsby), and a VFX - heavy «science - fiction» film (Gravity).

, reading a great piece of fiction, and playing with his Great Dane, Wyatt.

With literary fiction, there's an expectation of publishing short pieces in journals etc before a first book contract.

It was actually the experience of handling a lengthy bill (with more than 400 pages of legislative text) that gave me the confidence that I could write a novel - length piece of fiction.

Another writer I'm familiar with had an agent who, after representing several of his science fiction titles, flat - out refused to touch a spiritually uplifting autobiographical piece.

Since most flash fiction pieces are really too short to be over-plotted, I tend to start with the pantser method, and revise once done.

- Fran Bigman, The Washington Post «A dark fairy tale that pulses with life and anger, Little Nothing is a remarkable piece of fiction - fantastically written and beautifully crafted.»

I was a magazine journalist who had written a few nonfiction articles about Maine game wardens, and one Saturday morning, I started noodling around with a short piece of fiction — not even a story, just an anecdote — about a rookie warden and a marauding black bear.

Maybe I should just continue with my flash fiction pieces and wait for a genre to come knocking on my door?

Anyone can publish what they have written on Wattpad a romantic story, a piece of science fiction, poetry, an essay or a novel, and interact with readers and fans.

Now that you've worked with a developmental editor to put all your pieces in place for your book (fiction or non-fiction), all that's left is to write the damn thing.

Initially, I simply wanted to try out Babelcube with a shorter piece of fiction.

The force of Ebooks IS with me as I aggregate my collection of over 100 short stories and flash fiction pieces from my 4 - year - old e-mail subscription short fiction Web site http://www.LongShortStories.com into my first of several ebooks.

There will always be a need for good, tightly - written flash fiction pieces — miniature condensations that open out the world for and with us.

Writing FICTION has always been my business, with this advice - giving aspect a secondary For Love piece.

Atavist's Evan Ratliff spoke with GoodeReader at this year's DBW event to talk about how that popularity has led to even more platforms growing up to meet the need for novella length digital fiction and pieces of journalism that would have once been considered impossibly long for print media.

The potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or published as a collection — as well as timely pieces of non-fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.

When she can piece together a block of spare time, she enjoys reading contemporary fiction, beginning never - ending knitting aspirations, and playing with her dog, Lucy.