Sentences with phrase «fictional cities as»

Miriam Singer, looks perceptually at multiple locations in Philadelphia and expresses the fragmentation of a fictional city as a collage of noise, pattern, and density.

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Many sports fans saw this year's rise of Leicester City as the soccer equivalent of the fictional Bad News Bears, although in the movies, the lovable losers didn't win the championship.

But more than that, it's both the common dining table and grocer to the kind of eclectic city where fictional boxer Rocky Balboa is deemed as worthy of a statue as Founding Father Ben Franklin, an oversized small town where South Philly blue - collar workers and Northern Liberties hipsters alike pride themselves on being plainspoken connoisseurs of worthy eats, and will endlessly debate whether DiNic's roast pork with provolone and broccoli rabe has supplanted the cheesesteak as Philly's favorite sandwich.

There's only one thing dumber than having a fictional character (rocky) as your cities pride, and that's thinking Mamula was some sort of EPIC bust.

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

To demonstrate the versatility of their model, the team used the fictional city of Batman, Gotham City, as a test city of Batman, Gotham City, as a test City, as a test bed.

Let's face it, with popular fictional TV and movie characters like Stifler's mom, Samantha from Sex and the City, and arguably the queen of them all, Mrs Robinson, older women, or cougar's as they are now fondly referred to as, have never been more popular, or sexy.

Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.

He returns with an intriguing fictional debut staring (the late, great) Anton Yelchin and Lucie Lucas as a couple who meet cute in the Portuguese city of the title and engage in a brief, intense romance.

It's even mentioned that next door is a vacant lot owned by the city as to infer that is where the old house that Craig T. Nelson and his fictional family once lived until it was sucked into a supernatural vortex.

Dragon Eyes stars MMA fighter Cung Le as Hong, a familiar kind of principled genre - movie loner: new to a lawless town (the fictional city of St. Jude), ready to take down a corrupt lawman (Peter Weller) and the rival gangs who pay him for protection.

The game is set in 2022 in the fictional Canadian city of Oakwood where the player takes on the role of James Hsieh, an interior designer, as he fights his way out of Glenrose Hospital.

With his fictional New York symphony scattered after a management lockout, he's in Venice to help coax a diva (Monica Bellucci) back to work just as his former assistant, Hailey (Lola Kirke), finds herself and her oboe stranded in that same romantic city.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

Its hero, Jefferson Pierce, played by Cress Williams, has the power to control electricity and shoot lightning bolts from his hands, but when the story begins he is in retirement as a school principal in the fictional city of Freeland.

No other film, fictional or otherwise, more fully restores — poetically, with antic humor — our city's loss as does James Marsh's stunner.

The DB5 is possibly best known as the same model driven by the fictional James Bond in several 007 movies, and while it's odd that McCartney wasn't photographed more often while tooling around the city, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds remembers getting a tour of London from McCartney in this very car.

Sixteen - year - old Tina lives by the skin of her teeth as a Goonda, a member of the gang of thieves operating in Sangui City (a fictional place in East Africa).

His body of work for children includes the bilingual fictional picture books Alfredito Flies Home / Alfredito regresa volando a su casa; The Fiesta of the Tortillas / La fiesta de las tortillas; The Hen in the City / La gallinita en la ciudad; Moony Luna / Luna, lunita lunera; Trees Are Hanging from the Sky; Xochitl and the Flowers / Xóchitl, la niña de las flores; and Zipitio, as well as additional works of poetry, including Talking with Mother Earth, and his series of «cooking poem» books: Bean Soup / Sopa de frijoles: A Cooking Poem / Un poema para cocinar; Guacamole: A Cooking Poem / Un poema para cocinar; Rice Pudding / Arroz con leche: A Cooking Poem / Un poema para cocinar; and Tamalitos: A Cooking Poem / Un poema para cocinar.

Jeff Goldblum, Ron Pearlman, Neal McDonough and Heather Graham all lend their voices as the main characters for Shadows of Evil, which is set in the fictional Morg City in 1942.

Bloodborne is also a story of man as beast, humanity versus its dark nature — the story concerns humans that have been turned into monsters by a virus in the fictional city of Yharnham.

The plot of the game is appropriately simple, as players assume the role of Adam who has just arrived in the fictional city of Haventon.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

Put the fictional Liberty City (featured on New York City), the single - player story goes after a war veteran, Niko Bellic and his effort to escape his past at the same time as under pressure from loan sharks and mob bosses.

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When a game is described by the developers as containing «surly gelatinous characters, brutal mêlée fight sequences, and absurdly hazardous environments» with the action taking place in a fictional place known as Beef City, you know it's going to be fun.

Starting with the rather camp and flowery Tulip Garden (the end of route «A» we managed to complete); Metropolis - an awesome, fictional mix of various European city landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Nelson's Column with streetlights illuminating the gorgeous night sky; Ancient Ruins - the second stage we didn't get to see unfortunately; Imperial Avenue - a jaw - dropping sunset scene with Romanian architecture and coliseums; and finally the toughest stage of them all we don't even know the name of, since we couldn't reach Ghost Forest, the only stage from which the this final and most challenging mystery section is accessible.

The game offers an open world and allows the player to choose from eight different «Edgerunners», operatives that serve society in Night City (the fictional setting for the game's story) and then control and customise them as they see fit.

As we welcome New York City's new mayor Bill de Blasio, we celebrate the synergy between our Mayor's platform and how this program suggests the metropolis as a place comprising a multitude of different cities, locations, and stories — some fictional and some factuaAs we welcome New York City's new mayor Bill de Blasio, we celebrate the synergy between our Mayor's platform and how this program suggests the metropolis as a place comprising a multitude of different cities, locations, and stories — some fictional and some factuaas a place comprising a multitude of different cities, locations, and stories — some fictional and some factual.

The book will investigate subterranean Detroit with discussions of historical and fictional sites alike, such as Michael Heizer's earthwork Dragged Mass Geometric (1971), Rosa Parks Boulevard (the starting point of Detroit's 1967 racial riot), and Drexciya, a fictional underwater city located in Lake Michigan imagined by two techno musicians in the early 1990s.

Coming off the success of his ongoing project Jimmy's Thrift: A New Davonhaime Thrift Store (2016 — present)-- a thrift shop in a fictional town based on an amalgamation of the most densely populated black cities in America — Mohammed continues to make work that focuses on black excellence as a way to adumbrate the social ills of racist America, without losing sight of our present reality.

Sundblad is known for her collaborative work across mediums — including painting, singing, and performance art — as well as for her vision as co-founder and director of Reena Spaulings Fine Art (named after the fictional New York City it - girl at the center of Bernadette Corporation's collectively penned novel of the same name).

Informing his work are views of the city and the people that inhabit the spaces around him, as does a fictional world that exists beyond the present - a reality that is free from the limitations of anecdotal recordings of experience.

Views of the city and the people that inhabit the spaces around him inform his work, as does a fictional world that exists beyond the present.

On his blog, he described himself as a «fictional hiring partner in a large law firm in a major city.»

He blogs as Anonymous Lawyer, describing himself as a «fictional hiring partner in a large law firm in a major city.»

The video, as posted on the Xbox YouTube channel, is a traditional 2D animated clip, featuring the fictional town of Williamette, Colorado decorated for the holidays, and shoppers lining up to buy their gifts at the city's Mega Mall.

Last week: We entered the wondrous world of Wakanda, the fictional East African city, dressed in dashikis, all black and looking as royal as the cast of the now historic movie «Black Panther.»