Sentences with phrase «fictional book in»

Almost two thirds (63 %) of women have purchased a fictional book in the last 12 months, compared to 48 % of men.

The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller is a silly fictional book in which the states get bored and decide to switch places.

I forgot to ask — should graphic designers read the authors» fictional books in order to design a better cover?

Not exact matches

Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.

To illustrate this concept in his book, Kolko leads the reader through a fictional (but realistic and instructive) design task.

If you have ever felt invested in a fictional character's fate in a movie, TV series or book, you know exactly what Ambrosi is talking about.

Nigel Rees, editor of an engaging newsletter that tracks down quotations, reports that Chesterton's fictional Father Brown said things very much like that, but he suspects the source is Emile Cammaerts» 1937 book on GKC, which paraphrased him as believing that «The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.»

If you read the book on which the film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well enough without the added polemics displayed in a made - up speech by a basically fictional bitterly anti-erotic nun.

The Book of Mormon is purely fictional in its historical accounts.

For added discussion, see Professor Gerd Ludemann's studies and conclusions in his book, Jesus After 2000 Years, pp. 535 - 540 -LSB-(Johh 14: 1 - 31, Fairwell (fictional) discourse with the disciples]

This is a distorted translation... lots of good information comes from ancient books... it's just that the bible is fictional and any useful information can be found anywhere else since the bible plagiarized any real useful information that's in it... like do unto others as you wish them to do to you... is just ancient common sense and has nothing to do with what any fantasy gods might have said... the bible is a waste of time for the stupids.

Sandi, please trying educating yourself on the reality of life, which can not be found in a fictional book, and then perhaps you won't be such a moron.

That Murdoch can not find a way to accept this God who sees and seeks (who redeems), but instead embraces an impersonal and probably fictional Good, makes it ironic - perhaps contradictory would not be too strong a word - that she would conclude her book with these words from Psalm 139 (in the Authorized Version, of course):

Not really as said book will be simply taking up space and collecting dust in the fictional section of libraries.

Given Litfin's writings about the phrase «white privilege» and comments in class, I found the narrative in his fictional book series, «The Chiveis Trilogy,» to be potentially troublesome.

Given Litfin's writings about the phrase «white privilege» and comments in class, I found the narrative in his fictional book series, ``

peace I know EXACTLY who christ is... He is a fictional character in a book of myths, written to control people who were not allowed to be part of the religion of the people who wrote it.

@child: «Ok where is your proof that things in the bible are fictional» ok where is your proof that the book of the dead is fictional?

Basically if you believe in creationism, you believe in lies from a fictional story book.

He said the portion of the book most offensive to Muslims «happens in a dream, the fictional dream of a fictional character, an Indian movie star, and one who is losing his mind, at that.

In a blend of words from his public speeches, imagined conversation, and fictional situations, the book highlights Obama's real stance on social justice and, in particular, economic and political empowermenIn a blend of words from his public speeches, imagined conversation, and fictional situations, the book highlights Obama's real stance on social justice and, in particular, economic and political empowermenin particular, economic and political empowerment.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

The book wastes no time in setting up the cosmology of its fictional universe: the stakes of our young protagonist Nita's first forays into wizardry involve a battle between Life and Entropy.

Meanwhile, Mormonism is sweeping the earth, just as Joseph prophesied it would in 1830 when he released his fictional tale called the Book of Mormon...

I would like the story better if she gave the credit of her success to her own intelligence and hard work rather than a fictional character in an ancient book.

He'll probably crawl back to his lord at the end of the year with his faith renewed in the fictional christ / daddy figure, and get a book deal...

You will have to drop Joseph Smith in order to get out from under the tissue of lies his fictional books contain.

I am a proud member of the first camp, seeing epic and eternal themes in the books as worthy of discussion and the violence as a part of the fictional world that tells the story.

That's actually a very easy question to answer since Obama is actually real (I've seen him), and Satan is a fictional character in a book.

CNN, so you want us to discuss if Obama looks like a character in a movie that is based on a fictional book?

Stories such as those in the books of Ruth, Esther, Judith, which are nowadays taken as fictional rather than historical, use not only plenty of proper names, but often supply unnecessarily exact details.

In her best - selling 2014 novel California, Edan Lepucki briefly describes the fictional Plank College, a free two - year liberal arts program that centers around a Great Books curriculum while teaching its all - male students how to farm.

In Jakim's rendering, the voice of the Underground Man achieves something of the startling novelty it no doubt had in the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literaturIn Jakim's rendering, the voice of the Underground Man achieves something of the startling novelty it no doubt had in the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literaturin the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literature.

«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found in both fictional and historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for humanity»), the agón of individual and corporate life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.

BTW Jesus Christ is a character in a fictional book, sort of like Golding's Lord of the Flies.

He published his finding in a fictional book.

The Indian - born author's book, «Joseph Anton,» describes the nine years he spent in hiding, after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced him to death in 1989, for basing a fictional character on the Prophet Muhammad in his novel «The Satanic Verses.»

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

The writer did not know the physiology of marine life, and created this story, which ended up in your book of other fictional stories.

That's like saying any fictional character from a book in history is proof of their existence.

As it was with her first book and memoir: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Lauren's fictional debut proves, yet again, that she has what it takes to leave an indelible mark.

The fictional «experts» in the book are respected members of their communities, such as grandmothers and traditional healers.

Make toilet training fun by using a smaller potty in your toddler's favorite color or with his favorite fictional character, and make time on the toilet fun by sharing books or songs while your toddler goes.

They are not just a fictional feature in sci - fi or mythical based films / books.

The comic book character Batman, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics # 27 in May 1939.

In my book I offer a fictional scenario.

Retraction Watch (RW): You tell the book from the point of a view of a fictional first - person narrator, a sleep researcher in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

This is not news to anyone who has even a passing interest in (real, not fictional) history, but it doesn't detract from the book, which is all about the nitty gritty, frequently too - weird - to - be-believed details.

My few other interests are reading fictional books and taking long walks in the evening.

Atom Eve (real name: Samantha Eve Wilkins) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Image Comics Universe who appears primarily in the comic book A famous and popular core Cockney Rhyming Slang expression, Adam and Eve has been around since before C20th.