Sentences with phrase «fictional names for»

The first level that we were shown from the game was set in Los Angeles and although it had fictional names for famous landmarks, it was quite an eerie site watching the demo and realising that the warfare in the game was pretty much taking place outside the LA Convention Center, the location of E3 2012.

These next three scenarios were provided by bankruptcy attorneys, who used fictional names for the clients in describing the bankruptcy cases.

Not exact matches

The fictional British spy, code name 007, offers some helpful — if lighthearted — reminders for how to promote a business.

With our clients, we recommend even developing a fictional character for each personas, giving them a name, a job title and even a picture.

The Sophon, named for a fictional proton - sized supercomputer, could be the tool to train neural networks in data centers worldwide.

There is a word for how Smith did this, it is called «Plagerism» he stold the Text of a fictional manuscript from a writer named Soloman Spallding.

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 name «Pokémon» is shorthand for «pocket monster», a fictional animated creature that can be captured, raised and used to fight duels.

[they] allow me to observe and control fictional characters, and when I am at the helm, I try to make these characters behave not as how I would, but how I feel they would want to — a strange sympathetic process for which there is, as of now, no good name.»

Here are the results: Just 15 years ago, then - Vice President Dan Quayle publicly scolded a fictional television character, Murphy Brown, from the prime - time sitcom of the same name, for choosing to have a child on her own.

Author J.R.R. Tolkien created entire languages for his fictional universe, providing beautifully pronounced names with an Old Norse, Anglo - Saxon, or Icelandic ring.

The name is most famous in India and notable personas bearing the name of the Goddess are Chandra Wilson (the Emmy Award nominated Actess for Grey's Anatomy) and Chandra, a fictional character in Barbara Cartland's Love is in the Clouds (kids from the swinging sixties to the rocking nineties would know Barbara Cartland.

Charon's six most prominent craters were named for fictional explorers, including Dorothy who visited the fantastical land of Oz, time traveler Revati from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, and Nemo for the captain of the ship Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

They call it the Lake Wobegon Effect, named for Garrison Keelor's fictional hometown from the National Public Radio show, «where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all of the children are above average.»

There's no word yet on how they'll take their martinis, but a new subgenus of plants has been named Jamesbondia, after the ornithologist namesake for the famed fictional spy, Science Daily reports.

Approved by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, it includes names proposed by the New Horizons team and pays tribute to explorers, futurists, and fictional characters.

With the free iPhone app, aptly named «Bad Date Rescue,» you can arrange for downhill dates to be interrupted by phone calls from fictional characters.

Here's a poster for «The Hunger Games `, made in the style of Manhattan (and named after the fictional district).

The fictional filmmaker earned praise from the critics, too: Roger Ebert said that «Smithee, a name I'm not familiar with, allows his story to unfold naturally,» while the New York Times added that Smithee «has an adroit facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail.»

Series creator Hideo Kojima has been making Metal Gear games with publisher Konami for close to 30 years, creating sequels and prequels that bounce back and forth between the future and the past of a labyrinthine fictional world of spies, cold wars and walking nuclear weapons bearing the series» name.

As a younger man (now played by Jude Law, who also inherits voiceover duties from Wilkinson), he had visited a hotel by that same name in 1968, a semi-defunct and virtually unpopulated hulk in the fictional nation of Zubrowka that had once served as a glamorous mountain retreat for the uppermost of the upper classes.

For one thing, it was the name Arthur Conan Doyle toyed with for his fictional detective before settling on SherloFor one thing, it was the name Arthur Conan Doyle toyed with for his fictional detective before settling on Sherlofor his fictional detective before settling on Sherlock.

The series named for its main star, Roseanne Barr, centered around a working class American family in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.

takes place in the fictional Haddonfield, Illinois (named for Hill's birthplace in New Jersey), where deranged sanatorium inmate Michael Myers (Nick Castle) goes on a babysitter killing spree in his hometown.

The producer didn't divulge the name of the game they were shooting for but did say that it's a new installment of an existing franchise, that it would take place partially in the fictional Hope County and that it would be released this September.

Dakota Johnson returns as Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan is back as Christian Grey, in a pair of characters battling for the title of Most Fake - Sounding Fictional Name.

In the above video by Genius, Göransson explains how he crafted the scoring track «Wakanda,» named after the fictional East African nation the movie is set in, as well as how blown away he was by the script and his travels to Africa to research for the score.

Award: The Assassin Least Sexy Movie: 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: A LEGO Brickumentary) Best Tolkien Reference: The Martian Best Gag Involving a Hammer: Avengers: Age of Ultron Best Joke About Naming Your Fists «Cagney and Lacey»: Spy Best Celebrity Cameo: LeBron James, Trainwreck Best Imaginary Friend: Bing Bong, Inside Out Most Awkward Interplay Between Real and Fictional Theme Parks: Tomorrowland (Runner - up: Jurassic World) Best Contact Lenses: Johnny Depp, Black Mass Best Eyeglasses: Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Best Glass Eye: Christian Bale, The Big Short Best Robot: Ava (Ex Machina) Worst Robot: Chappie (Chappie) The Cameron Crowe Award for a Soundtrack in Search of a Movie: Aloha Best Aerial Stunt: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Runner - up: Spectre) Worst Oven - Cleaning Method: The Visit Worst Misuse of a Juice Bottle: Sleeping with Other People Best Movie About Journalism: Spotlight Worst Movie About Journalism: Truth The Sudden Ubiquity Award: Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Brooklyn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant); Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road; Legend; The Revenant); Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Mojave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Best Dog - boy: Jack Bright, The Good Dinosaur Worst Dog - man: Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Implicit Historical Comparison: Moving the events of The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina's Dirty War to post-9 / 11 America Best Backward - Looking Reboot: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Backward - Looking Reboot: Terminator Genisys Best Home Movies: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nicest Russian Spy: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies Trends of the Year: Women ruling comedy (Trainwreck, Spy); an overdue pushback against CGI (Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens); sneakily feminist themes in summer sequels (Magic Mike XXL, Mad Max: Fury Road); spy spoofs (Spy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, the final third of Spectre)

Recently, «Stonewall» received criticism for showing the Stonewall Riots through the eyes of a fictional white boy, when those riots were instigated by mostly black and Latina protesters, people whose names are already in the history books.

The second feature by British writer / director Peter Strickland, Berberian Sound Studio is named after the film's setting: a fictional Italian post-production studio doing the post-synched audio recording for a particularly nasty 1976 giallo film titled The Equestrian Vortex.

Edison is the name for the fictional city the events of this movie take place in (shot in Vancouver), where corruption permeates every facet of the criminal justice system, from the cops on the beat, to the judges, to the greedy politicians with their hands in the pockets of the major corporations that practically own the whole city.

In the upcoming ABC drama Conviction, which is airing early next week, Atwell plays a former (and fictional) First Daughter named Hayes Morrison who rather reluctantly teams up with the Conviction Integrity Unit, a group that examines cases for potential wrongful convictions.

While virtual reality has only been a thing — at least in name — since the 1980s, people have been dreaming of life in fictional worlds for thousands of years.

For instance, everyone — in the fictional world, that is — knows that Black Panther's real name is T'Challa, Chieftain of the Panther Clan, Warrior King of the African nation - state of Wakanda.

Creative Writing: Students will create an appropriate mascot for fictional Earhart University (named for Amelia Earhart), and will write a paragraph to describe the mascot and why they chose it.

As Tony Kuehn writes in his BookPage review, «This book is a living, breathing testament to Evison's singular talent for creating portraits of people who may be fictional, but nevertheless are so vital that one is certain their names must be in a historic register somewhere.»

A writer named Shahriar — the author's fictional alter ego — has struggled for years against the all - powerful censor at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

But I do like to shift fictional landscapes, so I decided to use a different pen name for each world.

This article from Writers Digest provides 7 rules of picking names for fictional characters.

In the next 48 hours (check the post for the time — Mountain Daylight Saving Time zone), leave a comment on this post — include the name of your favorite fictional reporter (preferably one that shows up in Crime Fiction), and make sure I can get in touch with you somehow.

They remain the only AKC breed named for a fictional character.

Blur employs a fictional social network which tracks your stats and achievements against those of your friends, hoping to generate a churning community intent on topping the leaderboards and making a name for themselves.

For those of you that don't know about this game (fat chance, though), this reboot tells the story of Lara Croft, a young archaeologist that along with her crew, are ship - wrecked on a mysterious fictional island named Yamatai.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Cloudberry Kingdom is the name of some fictional realm from a children's movie.

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.

Hiromi Tsuru, well known for her voice work for the Dragon Ball franchise as a popular fictional character named Bulma.

With only an hour to spare, he creates original artwork for a meeting with a fictional client, the subtly named WolfBear ginger beer.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

The collaborative is named for a fictional artist whose work was supposedly lost with the World Trade Centers on Sept. 11, 2001.

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).