Sentences with phrase «fiction works in»

Instead of submitting my novel to an agent, my first move would be to create a series of fiction works in which the same protagonist is featured.

This award is given annually by American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) for Christian fiction works in 11 categories.

There is also an oportunity to download a short fiction work in the second newsletter.

The chairs and judges from previous years picked Adichie's book as the best fiction work in a decade.

Not exact matches

«An unforgettable cast of small - town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by number one bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout,» explains Amazon.

There's a hint of cinematic fiction to the scenes or, at best, of a stunt that'll never work in the real world.

«As a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, told Inc. in January.

Harrison's first novel, «Wolf: A Fake Memoir,» came out in 1971 and he followed two years later with a work of fiction about the ecology, «A Good Day to Die.»

While there are the science fiction - driven angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world of online retail.

In a startup situation, you're operating in extreme uncertainty, and the reason people don't hit their numbers is that those numbers are works of fictioIn a startup situation, you're operating in extreme uncertainty, and the reason people don't hit their numbers is that those numbers are works of fictioin extreme uncertainty, and the reason people don't hit their numbers is that those numbers are works of fiction.

In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economistIn the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economistin the writings of most Keynesian economists.

HotAirAce, you posted «Given that The Babble is a work of (bad) fiction, learning the history of any of the characters in it would be about as useful as learning the detailed history of the Hobbits.

Given that The Babble is a work of (bad) fiction, learning the history of any of the characters in it would be about as useful as learning the detailed history of the Hobbits.

There is more evidence of UBL dying last week than there ever was of Jesus or anything that happens in that work of fiction called the bible.

The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.

Pastor, please seek employment in a library, the only place where the bible, torah, quran, and other ancient works of fiction belong.

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

It might not be a work of total fiction, but this wouldn't be the first time the church has tried to suppress science in favor or perserving the religion.

What is somewhat discomfiting about Percy as dialectician» and the dialectical is the principal aspect of his fiction, as well as central to his other work, including his interviews» is his seeming inconstancy in holding the advocates of tenderness to account in their various causes, even those separate from euthanasia and abortion, those other causes to which he himself is committed.

First published in 1907, GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a classic work of fiction that was right at home in its era but also way ahead of...

But his less - known work, a trilogy of science fiction novels, contains some of his most profound, thrilling and decidedly adult notions of the universe we live in, the reality - shifting nature of grace and the Creator who rules over it all.

That bullshit might have worked when mankind was living in caves and a couple of thousand years ago when some desert dwellers wrote a crappy piece of fiction now called The Babble, but we now know better on many, many fronts.

The reason there have been thousands of religions with nothing they all have in common is that they're all works of fiction created by people who had no interaction.

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

But with our roots planted deep in the truth of Christ, even the darkest, most secular - seeming work of fiction can refine, highlight and remind us of our own beliefs.

Jim, if you do believe in Abiogenesis «Your entire world view is based on an obvious work of fiction and you have been duped and self deluded enough to believe it.»

Rodrigues is based on a historical priest, Giuseppe Chiara, and while Silence is a work of fiction, the story takes place in an actual time when the Japanese government sought to remove the 300,000 Christians converts and priests from their country.

Edmund Wilson, McCarthy's second husband, had urged her to write fiction, and the resulting work (which won praise from Vladimir Nabokov) offers a glimpse of bohemian life in 1930s New York.

McCarthy emerges in her fiction as a moralist, and friends who recognized themselves in her work (Philip Rahv in The Oasis, Edmund Wilson in A Charmed Life, her Vassar classmates in The Group) naturally bridled at her judgments.

She also took from her religious training a confessional impulse, on display in three memoirs and her debut work of fiction, The Company She Keeps.

2) The bible is a work of fiction, or at least it's not a fully factual account of actual events in history.

Are they merely saying that the Bible is true in the way that a work of fiction is true?

In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

Perhaps I ought to be more surprised at his omission of historical fiction, including that of Madeleine Polland, written from a deeply Christian perspective; she wrote such works as Beorn the Proud, now available in reprint, and my personal favorite, The Queen's Blessing, set in the time of Saint Margaret of Scotland.

One finds in Wojtyta's works on human love and sexuality an alternative to both pre-Conciliar Jansenism and the fiction of «free love»; in it he develops an explicitly Trinitarian anthropology which elevates human life and love to the level of a dramatic participation in the Divine life itself.

When one must suspend all knowledge and logic and take something on «faith» in the absence of any verifiable fact then it will always be a best selling work of fiction.

Her work as an academic philosopher has dealt extensively with the figures and issues of that period, and in her discussions of fiction she has expressed particular admiration for the great novelists of that century, including Jane Austen, George Eliot and Leo Tolstoy.

For the first time in quite some time I managed to pry myself away from the non fictional category, and knock out a major work of fiction, and it turned out to be one of the more influential things I read all year.

It is wonderful that Lewis's work has only grown in popularity - 40 years ago in college, some people looked askance at our studying his fiction from a serious literary point - of - view.

Anyone who is facinated by his work, or Tolkien's should look into the writings of another one of the Inklings, Charles Williams, who wrote religious texts, poetry, and fiction, including the novels WAR IN HEAVEN, ALL HALLOW»S EVE, and MANY DIMENSIONS.

Like most fake news stories, it wasn't based on any real events of facts, but is a work of complete fiction meant to fool readers in order to generate clicks and social media shares.

These disparate works of fiction punctuate the manner in which American attitudes towards death and dying have been transformed from an uncomfortable familiarity to a comfortable unfamiliarity over the last two centuries.

People that believe that some magic being lives in the sky and that a work of fiction should be taken literally need to seek mental help.

Beyond even this, however, the idea that faith is a work, and therefore a work of God in the heart of the unbeliever is «a theological fiction which can not be supported from Scripture» (Kevin Butcher, «A Critique of The Gospel According to Jesus,» JOTGES 2 [Spring 1989], 38).

Authors and publishers would also testify to her golden touch, Of the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest year.

Girard began in the early 1960s, with such works as Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, by explaining how triangular relations form among characters in fiction.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Bible = 2,000 yr old work of fiction written by ancient uneducated men in order to control the masses.

But lest the Christian theologian dismiss too quickly the insight into both life's reality and the divine reality which Updike's fiction offers, or lest one wrongly conclude that Updike has totally forsaken his Protestant heritage, let me suggest a biblical parallel to the writings of Updike, one he himself makes repeated use of in his works.