Sentences with phrase «fictional form of»

In the latest video from DidYouKnowGaming, the gang discusses Sonic Adventure 2 ′ s backstory which includes the game's «American influences», Pepsi Man references, and the fact that Robotnik's cousin Maria may have contracted a fictional form of AIDS.

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You can form a group of like minded individuals who rally around the ideals of the fictional Sauron and call them Sauronists.

Chesterton's feelings about Russian anti-Semitism were reflected in a series of pieces published during 1891 (written in the form of fictional Letters) in The Debater, the school magazine of which he was co-founder and a prolific contributor:

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

While they are rarely explicitly stated, they emerge in dramatic or narrative form in almost all forms of fictional and non-fiction programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and children's cartoons.

A narrative form of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.

Get your child into the habit of thinking about things and forming her own opinions on everything from current news events to historical milestones to fictional stories.

Fritzsch's exposition is, for the most part, in the form of an imaginary discussion between Einstein, Newton and Adrian Haller, a fictional professor of physics.

I've always been interested in creative writing, and now that I'm retired I'm pursuing that interest in the form of fictional crime thrillers set in real locations.

Not being able to communicate regularly with the Russian girl you like you face to face, men are inclined to grant her fictional character, to idealize it, which in any case should not be allowed under any forms of russian girls dating.

Played by Michael B. Jordan with a juvenile ardor, rage boiling under his skin, Killmonger is a beautiful fictional creation, the embodiment of this passage from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's Rage and Time: «The person who is en - raged in the highest form enters the world like a bullet enters the battle... Wherever rage flames up we are dealing with the complete warrior.»

It's a thoughtful movie that recreates the 1950s TV sitcom in the form of a fictional such program called Pleasantville - a black and white town à la Leave to Beaver and Father Knows Best where everything that happens is expected and pleasant.

In a fictional European country where alchemy is an advanced form of science, brothers Edward (Ryosuke Yamada) and Alphonse (Atom Mizuishi) learn the art in an attempt to bring their mother back from the dead, but their plan goes awry (to put it mildly).

He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.

Bilge's lucid summary of the twisty - turny documentary Kate Plays Christine — in which director Robert Greene follows around a real - life actress while she rehearses for a fictional movie about the life of a real person — got me thinking: Aren't we starting to need more words for the bounteously proliferating forms of nonfiction filmmaking besides just documentary?

Last week a video in the form of a news report from the fictional news program WHIH, featuring Leslie Bibb's Christine Everheart, first introduced in Iron Man, focused on the fallout of the Avengers exploits and -LSB-...]

This fictional account follows assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge) forming an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran (Bacon) to take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to involve the entire criminal justice system of Boston.

King and his alternative persona Richard Bachman (responsible for schlockier novels like The Running Man) here find fictional proxies in the form of novelist Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), tormented by his violent alter ego George Stark, a leather - clad creep who begins violently murdering various of the writer's associates.

There's a whole gamut of things I think it's nice to see reflected back to you in fictional form.»

Set in the fictional Californian neighbourhood of Gordita Beach in 1970 (the year PTA was born, incidentally), Inherent Vice is the tale of the shambolic private investigator Larry «Doc» Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), an inveterate dopesmoker — or «hippie scum», if you prefer the analysis meted out by his LAPD nemesis, Det. Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen (Josh Brolin, on magnificent form).

While Porterfield's aesthetic gambit with Putty Hill — utilizing documentary techniques to convey a fictional narrative — resulted in a remarkable hybrid form of experiential cinema, I Used To Be Darker arguably ups the ante by pairing a similarly observational naturalism (sans interviews) with more traditionally - plotted melodrama.

Movies themselves are a form of voyeurism, with the characters the ones being observed, fictional they may be.

The fictional council house development in Greater Manchester that forms the backdrop to Shameless, one of Britain's longest - running drama series, is packed with dodgy incident.

Co-written with her brother Sven, who was himself a successful DJ, the film looks to be a sort of «Almost Famous» for the EDM age, following a fictional DJ act formed alongside Daft Punk.

Following their meet - cute, The Fault in Our Stars runs its course charting Hazel and Augustus's relationship from its somewhat aimless beginnings, in which she resists getting close to him out of fear of hurting him, through health crises that serve as a form of bondage, and eventually across an ocean to Amsterdam in search of the reclusive (fictional) author of Hazel's favorite novel.

This fits into the following syllabi: - A-Level - 3.1.2 - Understanding Different Business Forms IB - 1.2 - Types of Organizations This allows students to practice their knowledge of: - Features of Private Limited Companies Features of Public Limited Companies Advantages and disadvantages of each type in the context of an organization This case study is based on a fictional organization and contains a number of questions.

In studying Ancient Greece, teachers form groups of five and have their students reach a consensus on who should be the new patron goddess or god of the fictional city - state Dasteinia.

Creative writing may be in the form of bibliographies, fictional or non-fictional papers, short stories or even scripts and play writing projects.

It seems a pity that readers might form such an opinion of Bock's fictional Bethune (and thus, to a greater or lesser extent, of the real Bethune) because of a fictional device - especially as, by the end of the novel, Bock gives sufficient reason to explain why Bethune would be apart from his daughter at this time.

If you are writing the review of a fiction, form your own opinion on the fictional art of work.

First announced in the summer of 2008, Viz held portfolio reviews at San Diego Comic Con as part of their search for new original content, stating that «primary focus for the overall Viz original - comics plan is long - form fictional escapades.».

When writing your fictional stories, they will take shape in one of the following basic forms, each varying in length / word count: Novels Novellas Short Stories Flash Fiction The obvious difference, for the most part, is their word count / length.

«The Gryphon Press's inspiring books bring education about empathy and the human - animal bond to children in the form of beautiful fictional picture books.

Leaping into real life from the pages of the Newbury Medal - winning author's beloved series of books, visitors come face to face with the famous fictional characters Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Henry's canine companion, Ribsy, which were formed by sculptor Lee Hunt.

I've always been interested in creative writing, and now that I'm retired I'm pursuing that interest in the form of fictional crime thrillers set in real locations.

This is the Police is, in its basic form, a police strategy game, wrapped inside a story featuring the last days of a stereotypical chief of police, Jack Boyd, in the fictional city of Freeburg in the... [Read More]

Kou, along with his friend Asuka Hiiragi and others he meets, sets out to help the people of Moriyama City, a fictional city which lies just outside Tokyo, fix their emotions and find out the cause of what's making these Eclipses to form all of a sudden.

Developers provide minimal hints in the form of blue or red flashing colors on key objects as players trek through this fictional world, named Vanguard, constantly scanning for objects in the environment to use.

SCVNGR games can take the form of interactive tours, high - tech scavenger hunts, or even alternate reality games that make use of the augmented reality features of the iPhone and Android camera overlays, inserting fictional images and text overlaid into real - world locations.

For her exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Castillo Deball presents the most recent iteration of the project «To - Day,» which combines historical research about a specific site and a physical form that contains this research, which the artist calls a «fictional character.»

The lush mélanges of color, pattern, and texture within the paintings of Shara Hughes (b. 1981, Atlanta, GA) come together to form fictional yet evocative landscapes.

The fictional Eliza not only assumes the role of collector, anthropologist and naturalist; as curator of her wunderkammer she asserts her right to creative and artistic forms of social commentary about her time.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

This important work is the second piece in a trilogy forming part of an ongoing series which navigates the notional architecture and collection of a fictional museum, with this work being the «Hall of Sculptures».

The less than reliable curatorial voice from Powhida's future proposes an authoritative account of our present and near future through institutional forms — wall texts, videos, an exhibition catalogue, as well as fictional works of art, speculative drawings, and research - based diagrams, that point to the ways exhibitions shape and reflect histories.

For Caravaggio, the lack of a detailed background (sacrificing a sense of location for shadows), was a form of «tromp l'oeil» an illusory visual trick, which is designed to persuade the viewer of his painting to believe that a fictional scene is actually occurring right in front of them.

Diversity in forms and the use of apparently distant tools and references are the point of departure to create a fictional sense of transcendence and fluidity.

Taking inspiration from the creature's composed physicality and fictional being, the show reflects on new forms of abstraction and intangibility derived from the assemblage of different styles and materials often associated with the internet and its context of visual and narrative fragmentation.

These forms act as a magnet to which the male character, Die Man, gravitates towards, and eventually engages with, all adding to the experience of a familiar domestic world shifting towards a space that is fictional and unfamiliar.

Céline Condorelli is an artist who works with architecture, combining a number of approaches from developing structures for «supporting» (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites, resulting in projects merging installation, exhibition, politics, fiction, display, public space, sound, writing, and whatever else feels urgent at the time.