Sentences with phrase «fictional hero phileas»

Tony Stark, the fictional hero of the «Iron Man» films, saved his life and the planet by devising a compact energy source called the «arc reactor.»

In this game three children are processing their experiences through telling the tale of their fictional hero, a fox called Bushy Tail.

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days.

1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite directions, each determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days.

Like Cervantes» fictional hero Don Quixote — an appropriate analogy since their narratives are also the stuff of fiction — they charge at windmills, dragons of their own making, including teacher unions, underperforming district administrators and, in some cases, such as in Bridgeport, democratically elected school boards, all in the name of the fixing the «crisis» in American education.

Butler playing both himself and his daughter's fictional hero?

I'd like to think that they didn't follow the path of our fictional hero «The Ram,» but upon discussing these wrestlers with Director Darren Aronofsky recently over pizza before an advance screening of the wrestler, my fears were confirmed.

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen: It's difficult not to praise Katniss simply on the grounds of being an excellent role model — she's the type of fictional hero we should be giving our focus to.

The pulp - fictional hero is inhabited by the charismatic Andy Lau who, together with Chinese stars Bingbing Li, Ms. Lau and Tony Leung Ka - fai, makes Detective Dee the most purely entertaining film of our vanishing summer.

Famous namesakes: 19th - century British dandy Beau Brummell, AKA George Bryan Brummell; French Foreign Legion fictional hero Beau Geste.

And the heroes are simply the opposite of fictional heroes.

would get them criticized and yelled at by people and would get no approval by fictional heroes like batman, I'd say that for all of God's omni - benelovence and infinite love, God could really come of like an antihero, especially in the old testament.

They told stories about fictional heroes all the time.

These fictional heroes are supposed to encourage students to pick up a book and read over vacation to help stop the «summer slide,» which is when students return to school in the fall...

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).

Like most fictional heroes, The Boy Who Lived has never had a decent console game to call his own.

But underneath all the immersion that comes from playing as these fictional heroes, I do have to wonder if the development team is trying to do a little too much at once with this game.

(Hayduke's been one of my fictional heros, along with the real ones like Abbey, Sigurd Olsen, and many other writers so I followed those up)

, we could all be using smart contact lenses, similar to those fictional heroes and agents in movies.

Not exact matches

Stories of heroes (real - life and fictional) inspire us to dream bigger and reach higher.

Any real or fictional character in your story must be someone your audience members identify with and they must see themselves starting out on the hero's journey.

They built their whole society around the fictional fantasy capers on the show and glorified the heroes as divine.

• During the daytime, create stories with your child in which the protagonist (your child's favorite fictional character or hero) learns to overcome his nighttime fears.

Both men had broken the super hero - Moore by showing him to be a male power fantasy, Morrison by showing him, quite literally, to be fictional - «paper people» as he put it.

With fictional characters you may include a smattering of personality from different people, well - known or not, to create a monster or a flawed hero; a misguided disciple or ruthless advisor.

This time, the hero fighting in the trenches isn't Gal Gadot's fictional superhero, but a Boston terrier who attached himself to a 102nd Infantry Regiment unit during training in New Haven, Conn., and notably became not just the 26th Yankee Division's mascot, but also a lifesaver in battle.

The younger heroes — James Purefoy, Jason Flemyng — are fictional, because the rebels were all commoners, so not much is known about them.

That film is a fictional account based on the WWII endeavors of Alan Turing, conveniently modified into a heterosexual hero.

Ditching the MCU's familiar roster of heroes (they don't get as much as a mention) along with many of the basics of the Marvel film formula, Ryan Coogler has turned Black Panther into a highly personal crowd - pleaser in the vein of his last film, the Rocky sequel Creed, but with all the idiosyncrasies and intrigues afforded by its main setting, the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.

Specifically the kinds of movies that seek to elevate our sporting heroes (both real and fictional) to superhuman status by perpetuating the popular belief that true greatness is not measured by one's physical attributes but by the presence of a deeper - lying, infinitely more powerful strength that is less easy to quantify yet at the same time undeniable.

Based on the Marvel comic book of the same name, Disney's Big Hero 6 is a 3D computer animated movie that tells the tale of a robotics prodigy kid and his adorable robot companion trying to capture a technological terrorist in the fictional city of San Fransokyo.

Based on a little known Marvel comic series and directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, Big Hero 6 is set in the fictional mash - up city San Fransokyo — a pleasing blend of ornate Eastern - inspired rooftops and vertiginous streets.

Schwarzenegger stars in a dual role, as fictional action hero character Jack Slater, and also as himself.

Danny gives it a whirl, only to find that he is transported into the Jack Slater movie itself, living in the fictional world of action heroes and movie clichés.

The ideal candidate for this material would be David Fincher or perhaps Steven Soderbergh; Stone's corny, indiscriminate direction recasts Snowden (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) as the brooding, fist - clenching hero of a bogus spy movie, complete with a couple of fictional mentors played by Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage.

We'd seen hints of it in earlier films: the heroes» general fecklessness in Shaun, for example, or their tendency to confuse fictional bombast for real life in Hot Fuzz.

As said in a fictional HBO Sports broadcast during the film,» people find hope in the tales of their heroes» - this one happens to be his dad.

This tells the fictional tale of Benjamin Martin (Gibson, Chicken Run), a former war hero with a sordid past who is reluctant to take up the cause of his brethren in fighting the British during the Revolutionary War.

The movie's unlikely hero is a fictional, idealized version of Eddie Mannix, the top executive troubleshooter at MGM who coddled and disciplined studio talents, negotiated with unions, and, with the help of publicity chief Howard Strickling, controlled celebrity scandals.

And you know what, we would love to see Kendrick walking around in the fictional African nation of Wakanda as a rival to the hero.

The title character is a fictional Italian plumber who serves as the hero of a realm called the Mushroom Kingdom.

Set in the fictional suburb of Arcadia, our unlikely hero, Jim, and his two best friends make a startling discovery that beneath their hometown lies a hidden battle between good trolls and bad, the outcome of which will impact their lives forever.

It's Marvel's first film centered around a hero of color, and Black Panther is one of the oldest and best: the ruler of a fictional African nation called Wakanda and one of the first black superheroes in comics when Marvel introduced him in 1966.

Chadwick Boseman, who portrays the titular hero, revealed what he knows of the fictional country, describing it as a utopia.

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.

The shimmering towers, bustling streets and sprawling grasslands of Wakanda, the fictional east African country presided over by our hero King T'Challa (a suitably regal Chadwick Boseman), look almost nothing like Star Wars or Blade Runner — and in the current Hollywood sci - fi canon, that makes its sights virtually unique.

We already met T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the titular hero and king of fictional African nation Wakanda, back in Captain America: Civil War.

Book Quiz: Round 1: Name 6 fictional characters Round 2: Name 5 comic book heroes Round 3: Complete titles of 10 Horrible Histories Round 4: Name 5 more comic book heroes Round 5: Name 6 more fictional characters Round 6: Name another 5 comic book heroes Round 7: Solve the fictional characters» anagrams Round 8: Complete the book titles Round 9: Name the authors Task sheets and word search

But my hero is also distinctive from other fictional vigilante characters, because he's unusually self - reflective and philosophical about what he's doing.