Sentences with phrase «fictional characters through»

People connect with fictional characters through empathetic feelings, and neuroscience research has shown that the same hormones and chemicals associated with stress and attachment in real life situations are released while watching TV.

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It is a tribute to the power of this feeling that Melville — who almost alone among mid-nineteenth century men of letters in America pierced through the general moral optimism of the expansive spirit of the time, revealing in powerful fictional characters the ambiguities, the tensions, and the dark depths of evil and delusion — that Melville should have written these sentences.

He comes across as palpably decent, but with a touch of naivety, just like Tony Benn (who, you'll remember, got through an entire interview with Ali G without realising that he was a fictional character).

The gameplay consisted of not only moving the character through the game environment, but also making a dozen multiple choice decisions about the character's actions in an unfolding fictional narrative.

Tinder users swiping through profiles could come across two fictional characters from the show, which would then direct to videos promoting the sitcom if they made a match.

A catch phrase is an expression usually popularized through repeated use by a real person or fictional character.

Will Gluck's Peter Rabbit opens as one might expect for an animated / live - action film based on the misadventures of Beatrix Potter's beloved fictional animal character: with a flock of birds gliding through the sky and singing a pretty little tune worthy of Julie Andrews.

Taken a from a point of narration by Chaplin during an interview with a fictional character played by Hopkins the film simply takes you through Chaplin's life from one event to another although with many gaps.

I want greasy broker shennanigans with extravagant uses for an over abundance of money... so I can live out my fantasies vicariously through fictional movie characters

Nevertheless Lucky Luciano is a «cine - inchiesta» more than a fictional biography of the great crime boss although the recreation of the character of Lucky Luciano through the great acting talents of Gian Maria Volontè certainly manages to present something of a psychological portrait of this dark and enigmatic figure.

But when the theater suddenly catches fire and Max cuts through the projector screen in order to escape, the group is mysteriously sucked into the cult horror classic where they must team up with the movie's fictional characters in order to battle its machete - wielding killer.

While the other characters in Apatow's filmography are fictional, they rely on a lot of the actor's personality leaking through.

From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating position women had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional worlds.

Despite sourcing Wil Haygood's Washington Post article «A Butler Well Served by this Election», this is very much an uneven, fictional account that recklessly uses Allen's biographical details to ask about the separation between servant and slave, while filtering these characters through the various decades of racial tension and the Civil Rights Movement of America.

The trials that this family goes through, when added to some clichéd characters, gives the film the appearance of a fictional, scripted story, not a film dealing with real events.

This godawful film is a vile transparency — approximating through its fictional lead character (a white doctor who spins a globe, closes his eyes, and plops his finger on Uganda — yaaaaaaaaaaay!)

A fictional character that has problems and needs the learners» help through active decision making process.

When his fictional counterpart writes a few particularly scandalous scenes, and even has his characters discussing the stories of Shariar Mandanipour, the real Mandanipour's delight in his project shines through, even in translation.

But as I went through the manuscript, I realized that my protagonists are now not merely characters in my book, but they have their own fictional lives within the pages of the book.

The story unfolds through the adventures of a young fictional character named William Johnson who is apprenticed first to one, then to the other and not only makes discoveries of historic proportion, but transforms into an inspiring hero only Crichton could have imagined.

While it might not be possible quite yet to experience the lives of the fictional heroes and heroines we've walked side by side through life with for a little while, and sometimes who'd want to (think of just about any character from a Stephen King novel).

The game centers on the fictional pizza restaurant Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where the player must act as a night security guard and fend off animatronic animal characters by tracking their movement through the facility using security cameras.

The game is based on the Mr. Robot television series, and it allows users to interact with characters through a fictional messaging app.

Inspired by the 18th - century painter William Hogarth's moral tale, A Rake's Progress, the tapestries follow the life of a fictional character called Tim Rakewell, as he develops from infancy through his teenage and middle years, to his untimely death in a bloody car accident.

Premiering in New York as part of the Performa 09 biennial of new visual art performance, Alicia Framis presents Lost Astronaut - an ongoing performance - installation based at APF LAB that explores the potential of living on the moon through the ironic and fictional character and activities of a woman astronaut portrayed by Framis.

Using methods like parody, satire, interventions, and tactical obfuscation, he created fake organizations and corporations (including counterfeiting sites, media hoaxes and fictional characters) through imitating real corporations and political organizations.

A narrative around the emotional life of the artist is enacted through fictional characters, producing an in - between world filled with both humour and pathos.

She states, «through this process the paintings acquire their own history, like fictional characters.

Through fictional, adorable characters, moe speaks to a longing for youth, or youthful energy.

Laura Bernstein (Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist who constructs scenarios and vignettes through immersive installation, performance, and video in which her fictional characters and creatures engage with their environment, exploring the relationship between human and animal, exemplary and freakish, public ritual and private behavior.

Robin Brown is a visual artist and set designer who specialises in creating tangible landscapes, fictional settings, and exacting period recreations that draw character and narrative through environment.

The methods are diverse: find a fictional character that's going through exactly the same thing, sing along to the pop song that just gets you, or carefully study astrological compatibility charts.

When Art21 first filmed the Houston - based artist in 2002, all of his paintings and drawings were filtered through a fictional narrative and characters he called «Mounds» and «Vegans.»

Much in the same way World War Z chronicled humanity's war with zombies through a collection of fictional accounts from the front lines, the story unfolds from the perspective of several characters in different locations around the world as they watch the world change dramatically — and often horrifically — in front of their eyes.