Sentences with phrase «fictional accounts of»

Now, I just saw «Day After Tomorrow» again (for a paper I'm writing on fictional accounts of GW), and it featured deadly hailstones raining down on Tokyo & elsewhere.

Pipkin delves into the struggle and invisibility of women in science by examining the true story of Caroline Herschel and the fictional accounts of Siobhan Ainsworth and the Seven Sisters.

I disagree and instead found in The Lacuna one of the more sensitive fictional accounts of the McCarthy era.

The first two titles are movies, fictional accounts of a kid left home by himself.

King writes fictional accounts of horror that kinda sorta mirrors the fictional accounts of horror in the Bible.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

Jackson gave Shaq a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddartha, a fictional account of the life of Buddha, with the hope that it might make the goofy young centre think about his relationship with material possessions, creating a spiritual change that would, in the end, make him a better player.

George Orwell's famous novel «1984,» is a masterful fictional account of a state which imposes cognitive dissonance on its citizens to control their... [Read More]

It's a fictional account of his conversion that he wrote over a holiday visit with his childhood best friend.

Religion is a hoax, your all sheep... you do nt need a fictional account of something from 2000 years ago to tell you whats right or wrong, or good or bad... Stop using a crutch and live your own life.

If you have read the Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye «Left Behind» series, you are familiar with a fictional account of what may happen during this period.

This is a beautiful, albeit fictional account of the love story between Jesus and his wife Mary Magdalene.

And I can't understand why you believe that any reasonably intelligent adult would be frightened into believing in your god by reading a fictional account of «hell.»

A fictional account of the true story of Anonymous and LulzSec, the collective swarm who took on the most powerful capitalist forces from their bedrooms.

The novel, a New York Times best seller, is a fictional account of Benedict Arnold's socialite wife Peggy Shippen's role in his treason against America.

Directed by Berlin - based filmmaker Felix Randau, the $ 4 million film is a fictional account of Ötzi's life, all in an invented language with no subtitles.

It's a fictional account of the creation of the tapestries.

Brian De Palma returns with a new crime thriller drawn from James Ellroy's fictional account of the notorious Los Angeles murder of a would - be Hollywood starlet dubbed the Black Dahlia.

In Birth of the Dragon director George Nolfi («The Adjustment Bureau») serves up his fictional account of a notable 1964 showdown pitting the immensely gifted Oakland - based martial arts instructor Bruce Lee (Philip Ng, «The Man from Macau») against Wong Jack Man (Yu Xia, «Romance Out of the Blue»), a visiting (and disgraced) Shaolin monk now making his home in San Francisco.

As Usai observed, Stone «makes use of this footage in a fictional account of the investigation on the event by multiplying Zapruder's 486 frames in a plethora of duplicates, slow - motion enlargements and re-enacted versions.»

The drama is a fictional account of what was called the «Boston Miracle.»

A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland - firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney)- who are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.

Nine years after meeting Celine (Delpy, Three Colors: White), Jesse (Hawke, Training Day) is a best - selling author, whose latest novel is a fictional account of that night in Vienna where the two fell for each other.

A24 has unveiled the first trailer for the film The Disaster Artist, a fictional account of the making of the «best worst movie ever made» - The Room, as directed by Tommy Wiseau.

«Primary Colors» John Travolta leds the cast in this critically - acclaimed political comedy, which was a fictional account of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.

Shane Hennessy caught up with director Nick Hamm to explore the journey behind his fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland.

A Royal Night Out, a fictional account of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret's night out on the town to celebrate VE Day in 1945, is as lightweight and schmaltzy as it sounds.

Quills is adapted by Doug Wright from his award winning play and gives fictional account of his latter days in Charenton Asylum, where he spent his last decade.

Downfall Oliver Hirschbiegel's tale of madmen and monsters is perhaps the definitive fictional account of the final days of the Third Reich.

The Lost Palace (What the Goats Saw)- Pupil's English text with fictional account of Yeavering Bell, an Iron Age Hill fort and Anglo - Saxon palace...

They then research some of those places and write a fictional account of their journey.

Her first book, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen - year -... (more)

Such is the ultimate significance of war in The Thin Red Line (1962), James Jones's fictional account of the battle between American and Japanese troops on the island of Guadalcanal.

Némirovsky's manuscript for Suite Française was written as the Germans rolled into France, and is that rarest of treasures: A fictional account of WWII as it unfolded.

The Painted Kiss, by Elizabeth Hickey A fictional account of the woman who posed for Gustav Klimt's famous painting and was his secret mistress.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is a hilarious fictional account of the «missing years» of Joshua bar Joseph, aka Jesus of Nazareth, as told by his childhood pal and best bud, Biff.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is a hilarious fictional account of the «missing years» of Joshua bar Joseph, aka Jesus

This richly and dramatically told fictional account of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers is based on the real - life Ella Sheppard, who was born into slavery and later joined the chorus, which went on the road to raise money to repair Fisk's dilapidated buildings.

In a fictional account of the life of Nat King Cole's driver, Howard explores the tumultuous landscape of 1960s America.

A fictional account of the life of young artist Frida Kahlo that celebrates her connection to the animals she loved and painted.

For instance, I recently finished reading the absolutely stunning novel Darktown by Thomas Mullen, a fictional account of the first black police officers to patrol Atlanta in 1948.

In the Classroom: Share A Movie in My Pillow / Una película en mi almohada and Mother Earth / Hablando con madre tierra, and then pair those titles with Antonio Skármeta's book The Composition (2003), a fictional account of a community living under a repressive regime that asks its children to spy on their parents.

Still Alice by Lisa Genova is a fictional account of a 50 year old Harvard psychology professor with early onset Alzheimer's.

«Sensible Shoes is a story about the spiritual journey; a fictional account of -LSB-...]

In The Tumor, bestselling author John Grisham provides readers with a fictional account of how a real new medical technology could revolutionize the future of medicine by doing just that — curing with sound.

A Small Death is a fictional account of the life of the Sufi master and poet Muhyiddin Ibn «Arabi.

Roll back the clock a little for a fictional account of Sukarno's downfall in the 1960s in The Year of Living Dangerously.

The impetus for this film is Orson Welles» fictional account of an alien invasion in The War of the Worlds which was mistaken for a real news item.

The Danish Girl is a fictional account of painter Lili Elbe, who worked in Paris in the 1920s and 30s and became the subject of an Oscar - winning film starring Academy Award - winners Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander.

A fictional account of an environmental crisis shines a light on problems in the Chesapeake Bay.