Sentences with phrase «fiction than fact»

Fact: «The «new father» remains more fiction than fact.

With its sharp dialogue and philosophical digressions, Chatwin's evocative account reads almost like a novel — some people he included in the book, in fact, accused him of playing fast and loose with the facts, writing more fiction than fact.

That situation, along with the love interest (which is likely far more fiction than fact) forms the backbone of the story.

As theories and advice are passed along the grapevine, we often end up standing by information that is more fiction than fact.

A spectacular string of advances in superconductivity and nanotechnology reported by researchers at Lucent Technologies» Bell Labs since 1998 were probably more fiction than fact, according to a panel established in May to look into allegations of scientific misconduct at the company.

Some NETs amount to giant air - purifying machines, and many remain more fiction than fact.

Another Mandelson line in the drama — that Gordon should just «wing it» in talks with Clegg — was more fiction than fact.

In short, there's more fiction than fact in there.

She is the subject of numerous books, movies, and even a musical — often more fiction than fact.

The speech is further evidence that B.C. Liberal claims are more fiction than fact: Claim: People who make...

The speech is further evidence that B.C. Liberal claims are more fiction than fact:

Not exact matches

But as stories and news travel at lightning speed, it's more difficult than ever to tell fact from fiction.

Focusing on fact rather than fiction is what will lead to the greatest success.

In fact, the reference in the April issue was a little bit more than mildly annoying, mostly because it was a mixture of fact and fiction.

Ultimately, you have to have faith in the historical theories (that Jesus was fiction, fact, or a mix thereof), or the Christological theories (that Jesus was more than just a historical person).

I think this could be the basis of a reworking of penal substitution based upon legal fact (Jesus broke the letter of the law), rather than legal fiction.

Use your intellect and iunderstand the world of fact rather than fiction... it far nicer.

Thus, fiction and idealization in excellent art are means for achieving greater truthfulness than would be possible through fidelity to literal fact.

Reality is often better than fiction in March Madness, a fact hammered home in the first two rounds of this tournament.

If your child is not interested in facts and non-fiction, there are plenty of fiction books based in particular historic settings which (in my experience) give a better understanding of history than many text - books.

Writing political fiction is, like any fiction, easier than writing fact; a disclaimer in the front...

Ballard goes the furthest and, quoting from his earlier writing, says: «Science fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrelevance.

For more than eight years, we have authored this column on facts and fictions in mental health, an opportunity for which we are profoundly grateful.

It was standing room only Friday night at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel's Hale Hoaloha Pavilion; more than 750 attendees came to enjoy a behind - the - scenes peek at Interstellar and an in - depth look at how Dr. Thorne assisted Hollywood in turning science fact into science fiction.

Is it fact or fiction that muscle - building athletes require substantially more protein than the average person (in body building handbooks recommendations are given such as 1 gram protein per pound of body weight per day, which are much higher than the RDA of 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight per day)?

Or, You Can Get Just The Facts: Screenwriter John Collee takes more than a few creative leaps in blending fact with fiction, most dubiously in personalizing the private lives and conversations of the film's characters.

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.

It's difficult to think of a modern documentary as complex and well put together — not to mention as morally confounding — as Cartel Land, a documentary whose «facts» are stranger, and more compelling, than most fictions about the drug wars.

It's also more classically well composed than 99 % of conventional narrative fiction — in fact, a common (and correct) observation is that the story couldn't have been any more interesting or dynamic had it been fabricated from nothing.

But more important than any of these elements is a firm understanding of what is fact, and what is fiction.

While all this seems ridiculous on the surface, it is an irrefutable fact that truth is often stranger than fiction.

If you add in the fact that Alice Sebold's past experience (as outlined in «Lucky») clearly colours the type of fiction she writes and how it makes me feel uncomfortable in the same way that anime's fascination with the atomic bomb does, then you'll understand why I was more than a little disappointed with The Lovely Bones.

The Happening posits a classic science fiction «what if» scenario, and is in fact even more Hitchcockian than Signs.

This stranger than fiction story of the extraction of 6 embassy officials during the Tehran hostage crisis in the 1980s, under semblance of a faux movie production as cover sounds like something only Hollywood could dream up This now declassified story however did in fact transpire.

In fact, the film ultimately owes more to the action than the science fiction genre.

Science Fiction has become today's fact, but it's more intrusive than we'd liked; but it was these ideas and almost vicious bloodsport presented in 1987's RoboCop which have defined a generation of Sci - Fi / action films.

The outcome is public record and more proof that fact can be stranger than fiction.

In fact, it's a much better science fiction film than it is action film.

In fact, there may be no modern filmmaker more qualified to continue Wade Wilson's story than the man behind Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained.

Proving fact is more compelling than fiction; Apollo 13 offers a great look at space history, sure to whet your family's appetite for this subject.

When employees are unable to discern fact from fiction — or learn to «trust their gut» rather than validate facts, companies generally pay the price.

Rather than the old simplistic distinction between fact and opinion (and fiction), the standards emphasize the complexity and subtlety of all the shades of knowing or thinking.

Her latest piece is part one of a multi-series takedown of those who use fiction rather than facts to fancifully present the term «school turnaround» as if it was a magic bullet.

And if that's fact rather than fiction, this will put the RP1 in a class of one aerodynamically; even a McLaren P1 generates «only» 650 kg of downforce in its most be-winged Race setting, and it's not strictly road legal when in that mode anyway.

In our experience, it's much easier to write about facts than fiction.

This reflects both their enormous, crossover appeal and the fact Shanda Literature, China's most popular original fiction site, is part of the country's biggest online gaming company and therefore understands the nature and opportunities of the web better than most established publishers.

Homeland Security trumps democracy, fact is stranger than fiction.

It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him.

Stranger than fiction: How forbidden book was smuggled out of N. Korea — They say fact is stranger than fiction.

Eddie never knew whether that was true or not, the bricklayer part, he always had trouble separating fact from fiction with his mother, who didn't stop keeping scrapbooks on Princess Grace until she died in that car crash on the same road Eddie'd driven down from Cannes — the Grand Corniche — which was scarier than the Cyclone ride at Coney Island.