Sentences with phrase «fiction world of»

Evolving into its own form, the science fiction world of «A day in the life of bliss» might surely bear down on Wu Tsang's forthcoming solo exhibition called The Luscious Land of God is Sinking opening at the same space opening in mid-September.

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

Yet, while both are at the height of hype in the tech world, much of the general public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the realm of science - fiction.

Ford's father was a travelling salesman, the Pulitzer - winning American novelist tells us in the introduction to this collection of short fiction, and he kept that job through the Depression, the Second World War, and the entire 1950s, a time when your job was in some ways synonymous with your character.

The comedian, writer and producer was perhaps best known for «The Larry Sanders Show,» which bridged the gap between TV fiction and the behind - the - scenes world of show business.

When it comes to technology and innovation, reality seems to be constantly playing catch - up to the visions of the world that are painted in science fiction narratives.

Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

In the world of fiction, there are few names more recognized by both readers and filmgoers than J.K. Rowling.

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.

Random House of Canada Limited is a division of Bertelsmann AG's Random House, the world's largest publisher of fiction and non-fiction for all ages, in a full range of formats that include hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, electronic and digital.

This is what separates the world of fantasy from the world of fiction.

When, we tend to use the word «fiction», we are pulling ourselves away from the actual ground of reality and pushing ourselves closer to the non-realistic world of imaginations.

Milbank demonstrates that the fictions of Chesterton and Tolkien seek to destabilize the familiar world by making it strange, eerie, uncanny.

Our world is full of works of fiction.

Sorry honey, but you're living in a fantasy world (not that you weren't already I guess) but to claim that christians have always loved the jews is rewriting history to the point of fiction.

Jews can not help but recognize that Christians are inspired by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, yet they can not explain Christian belief in the divinity of Jesus, except to dismiss it as a «world - historical fiction» (in Franz Rosenzweig's words).

Hence Shakespeare's sister, writing in a world where gender did not debilitate, would have written plays the equal of her brother's plays.2 The Harlequin romances are the equal of Faulkner's fiction as expressions of American culture.

«Hunger, poverty, poor health, fear, violence and lack of freedoms are not just elements of fiction, but daily realities in our world.

Yes, the world of Handmaid's may be hard to watch, but it's by looking away that we make its fiction more likely to become a reality.

As most people find fiction more accessible than nonfiction, I think the book offers a great opportunity to demystify one of the world's great leaders and prophets.

The cloistered world of these thoroughly pre-Vatican II nuns, with their rigid rules, harshly penitential disciplines, and permanent, world - denying vows, must seem more alien to contemporary readers than the futuristic realms of most science fiction novels.

One of American fiction's most attractive characters is the 13 - year - old Esme in J. D. Salinger's «For Esme — With Love and Squalor»; her unaffected charm and solicitude rescue the soldier - narrator from a World War II emotional and spiritual hell.

What I found, in addition to more wonderful reading, was a writer who had lived in many of the worlds evoked by his fiction.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

When we think about the role of reading in our spiritual formation, we generally think of non-fiction books that help us understand scripture and theology, but fiction powerfully shapes the ways in which we think faithfully about God and the world.

It was built on a complex and evolving set of treaties, informal agreements, and legal fictions through which the Church conceded to Catholic sovereigns rights over many aspects of ecclesiastical life — in exchange for which those sovereigns protected the Church from schism and supplied the resources for missions across the world.

Your entire world view is based on an obvious work of fiction and you have been duped and self deluded enough to believe it.

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.»

The true fiction is the separation of church and state and that following Jesus in this world is not political.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

for example, the stuff of science fiction yesterday (Brave New World, 1984, even the movie Gattaca) is becoming a reality.

About 95 % of this Nation & world think GOD»S Word is fiction anyhow.

They want unrealistic imaginary men who only exist in the world of fiction.

Models are superfluous and theories are useful fictions; neither is a representation of the world.

All impossible in the real world, but possible in the world of science fiction comics and mythical fairy tales.

It was an outlook on the world that not only went unchallenged at home but was the presupposition of all of England in the eighteenth century, and was utterly determinative for Jane's fiction, as Honan succinctly summarizes:

Huxley's novel [Brave New World] is, of course, science fiction.

For although Austen can be legitimately claimed as the formal forerunner of the vulgar romance fiction now clogging whole sections of the world's bookstores, her own novels far transcend the very genre she is supposed to have inaugurated ¯ and precisely because of the moral vision that came from her upbringing and which has now, it would seem, all but disappeared in the wake of Sitcom Wworld's bookstores, her own novels far transcend the very genre she is supposed to have inaugurated ¯ and precisely because of the moral vision that came from her upbringing and which has now, it would seem, all but disappeared in the wake of Sitcom WorldWorld.

Just as he's attempted to bring some cerebral quality into the often - vacuous world of young adult fiction, he's also pushing the boundaries of YouTube the world's most popular video - sharing site.

The technological rationalism and optimism of much science fiction is also, in a way, more American — and America has offered the broadest field for Jewish literary efforts since World War II.

The whole story of gas chambers and crematoria is pure fiction, a gigantic hoax, a myth, a vicious fraud invented by World Jewry in order to gain financial reparations from Germany and global sympathy for the state of Israel.

I wanted to go back to her fiction and so I found myself drawn into the stark, breathtaking world of Salvage the Bones.

From Red: I have always felt that Christian art (particularly music and written fiction) is of a much lower quality than what you find in the «secular» world.

It follows in the footsteps of the very best of the science fiction genre in forcing us to ask uncomfortable questions about the world we live in.

Which is why we need smart TV more than ever, because fiction in all forms still steals past the watchful dragons of our own presuppositions and prejudices and helps us look at the world in a different light.

It is no coincidence that the near unanimous judgment of science fiction writers is that a world dominated by technological hardware is a world in which individual human self - identity is missing.

At a time when many writers of fiction appear content to spin out tales concocted by marketing firms, or else lose themselves in worlds of arch and arcane wordplay, Murdoch is extravagant, enthusiastic and earnest.

Regardless of your political affiliations, there's no denying that Americans love turning to science fiction for what it does best — reflecting our own world back to us.

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

No longer in contact with the created world or with himself, out of touch with the reality of nature, he lives in the world of collective obsessions, the world of systems and fictions with which modern man has surrounded himself.