Sentences with phrase «fictional people who»

So how do you create fictional people who'll keep readers hooked?

In a series of controlled experiments, we asked participants, mostly average Americans in their 30s and 40s, to read about and evaluate the actions of fictional people who behaved in either a moral or immoral way.

Not exact matches

We need, to understand that they are fictional people, who are able to do things that real people can not, but I'm talking more about identifying with their moral code, their values in helping others and doing right from wrong.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

The people who claimed responsibility for the hack have said on Internet postings that they were incensed by the Sony Pictures film «The Interview,» a comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

If you have been reading personal finance website for awhile, you may have noticed a trend towards ridiculing those who make intelligent financial decisions by constructing this fictional «average person» and describing how some handicap would prevent this «average person» from being able to share in that success.

In fact I bet you're one of those hypocrite teabagger trolls who are happy to have the government pave their roads, provide public schools for their kids, provide a mortgage credit, etc. then whine about all those fictional people getting so much for free.

Though it may sound bizarre, engaging with fictional characters on a deep emotional level can be a sort of thought experiment in empathy, where we briefly step outside of our self - constructed glass boxes and engage with people who are both vastly different and the same on an intimate level.

peace I know EXACTLY who christ is... He is a fictional character in a book of myths, written to control people who were not allowed to be part of the religion of the people who wrote it.

Ive noticed that people who do not believe in santa clause, the easter bunny, fairies, leprechauns, or any other character considered to be fictional; never stress their non-beliefs in these characters.

It is a fictional story, similar to the stories by CS Lewis about a person who travels to another world and experiences adventures there.

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

The fact that Harry does not understand the meaning of the epitaph, not to mention its provenance, is an entirely legitimate fictional device on the part of an author who understands the need of young people not to be spoon - fed the truth, but rather to puzzle it out for themselves.

But rather than get an answer to this riddle, you'll be even more dumbfounded, because the fictional billionaire in Miguel Arteta's film from Mike White's screenplay is your basic narcissist who might be on the wavelength of people in his 0.1 % circle of Americans but could hardly win the vote of the down - and - out.

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.»

Amirpour's movie is all set in the fictional suburbs of Bad City, Iran, an eerie ghost town haunted by The Girl (an excellent Sheila Vand), a young vampire who finds her way into this miserable circle of people.

Luke Evans returns as Bard the Bowman, as do a boatload of other actors — Orlando Bloom, Ken Stott, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, and Ryan Gage, who spends his many (many) scenes as a comically sniveling human daring children to call for the death of a fictional person.

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.

I never read the Harry Potter books and I enjoyed the movies well enough... So, yes, I was one of those people who thought he might not be the target audience a deep dive into what was going on in this fictional universe across an ocean, fifty some years before Harry Potter was even born.

Petition halts TV broadcast of fictional love story about couple who meet during Paris attack in which 90 people died

A second viewing on Blu - ray opened up some of the attributes that I missed — most notably the lovely photography — and made me realize that I was reacting negatively to certain plot twists in the script by Baker and Chris Bergoch, as well as the actions of certain characters; more and more, I find that I don't wish to spend any more time than is necessary with people (including entirely fictional creatures) who are selfish and unkind.

There's a scene early in Justin Simien's debut film Dear White People where Sam (Tessa Thompson)- a student at a fictional Harvard - ish Ivy League school who's known for organizing rallies against racist school policies - has an argument with her white friend -...

In 1994, Quentin Taratino wrote a fictional story about Mickey & Mallory Knox, a honeymoon couple who, as a perverse aphrodisiac, randomly shot and killed over 50 people.

'' [The plot follows] a 19 - year - old student who sees the fictional characters in the play he's writing intertwining with the people in his life.»

Young people like the fictional characters Ludovic and Tris might then find a world that is more accepting, and we could only benefit from the creative possibilities when young people are allowed to be who they are.

He is the only person fictional or factual on earth who is more smarmy then Malloy and Duncan.

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.»

Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker's Wife, is also a good enough writer to overcome the weirdness of putting fictional, Preston Sturges - worthy dialogue into the mouths of people who actually lived.

Trotsky in Mexico Kingsolver's fictional protagonist, Harrison Shepherd, spends much of his life brushing up against the lives of real people, including the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera who played host to Leon Trotsky in the 1930s.

Instead, you have created a «fictional self» — taking on the identity of who you believe you are supposed be, the person people tell you you are.

In a world filled with bigotry and hatred, Ned is simply a decent person who surrounds himself with noble Texans, such as Deputy John Washington, the first «colored» deputy in my fictional Lamar County.

Both books combine the stories of fictional characters with actual people who lived at the time, with anarchist Emma Goldman making an appearance in both.

Thankfully, a Facebook support group has been established to help people like me, people who have accidentally and unintentionally blasted their fictional families with a searing gust of Arctic wind.

The fact that it takes place in a building that exists and housed people like Renee, who herself is a fictional creation based upon real people's lives, lends the game some weight.

This isn't related to gaming but I know the Japanese twitter account for the Sanrio character Cinnamoroll was being bullied by Japanese people who were telling the fictional character horrible things like to «kill himself» and «die».

Set in the fictional Hope County, Montana, you take on the role of an unnamed Junior Deputy, who, along with fellow law enforcement, is tasked with arresting preacher Joseph Seed, the leader of a militaristic doomsday cult called the Eden's Gate who have taken over the county to protect the people from an inevitable collapse.

That type of save system may work for hardcore players (who border on sadomasochism anyway), but the fictional Little Jimmy from Idaho (the person I often design for) is just going to quit playing out of frustration.

Suspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility, Love Story reflects on the callousness of a media - saturated culture in which identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real world adversity.

The pair, who are arguably most famous for their inception of fictional person, Darko Maver, a Serbian artist who made very realistic replications of brutal murder scenes and posted them on social media to get attention (as the story goes), will make all new work for this coming exhibition.

Saskia Olde Wolbers is a a video artist who combines first - person, fictional narratives with diverse imagery, resulting in films that she shoots under water, inside miniature handmade models.

It's a fictional model made up by people who found a formula that autotunes so virtually any input of mere random noise will produce the same output.

If one can not tell who it (the fictional story) is about because the name is changed, then Fox, or whomever, couldn't sue anyway because they need standing, which they wouldn't have if you called the person X, unless the story was so exact that it is obvious who you are talking about.

According to Cook, at the end of the game, he compares the pile of savings to another, fictional pile of a person who saved irregularly and didn't benefit from earning interest.

The ad promoted a fictional apartment for rent and was targeted at people living in New York, ages 18 — 65, who were house hunting and likely to move.