Sentences with phrase «fictional stories with»

She also hosts The Changing Earth Podcast which blends her fictional stories with educational survival tips.

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He has rarely taken formal action on the very regular publication of fictional stories that are written about him and he has worked hard to develop a professional relationship with the media, focused on his work and the issues he cares about.

Throughout most of history, there's been a symbiotic relationship between fictional story - tellers and creators — thanks to fiction's capacity to spark imagination and those with technical knowledge to help realize its vision.

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.

On the other hand, if you told that same thousand people to write a fictional short story, you'd get a thousand different stories with virtually nothing in common.

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

Fuck your stupid, fictional Jesus stories and get with the modern world.

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

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?

Well, sorry to say but with the exception of 1 % of the population that are true atheists people know there is a difference between Fictional stories and the truth expressed by Christ.

With all due respect, my studies have shown that Christianity is more than just a «belief» or a fictional story, as it is often characterized.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

• 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.

It is rumored that renegade Councilman Eric Ulrich personally corroborated with three sources to relay the same fictional story to the press.

Halali was also a real person, and his story is skillfully interwoven with that of the fictional Younes.

After failed attempts at a fictional account, a lunch with the writer Gay Talese — who urged Villano to tell the story as nonfiction — provided the push he needed.

In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin was widely credited with shifting public opinion against slavery, but to date, there has been sparse evidence that fictional stories, even very popular ones, can influence political opinion.

I love reading and talking about inspiring true life stories, new fictional books, or classic novels with my friends!

Although inspired by real pirate radio stations of the time this fictional story sees a group of ragtag DJ's on a rusty old trawler blasting the UK with dangerous rock n roll.

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.»

With questionable dialogue and cheap CG effects, «The Aviator» might as well be a fictional story, but the backstory of this legendary director / aviator is far too compelling to look away from.

Based on the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold, it's the fictional story of a 14 - year - old girl who is raped and murdered in 1973, and watches from heaven as her parents and family deal with their grief and search for justice.

The story may be fictional, but it's hard not to relate to everything happening onscreen (maybe because we live in a country filled with corruption?).

In it, Cheadle's script (co-written by Steven Baigelman) weaves together the tumultuous relationship between Davis and Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi) with a completely fictional story about Davis and Brill teaming up to try and recover a session tape that was stolen by Michael Stuhlbarg's sleazy producer and Keith Stanfield's aspiring musician.

Together they've tackled the Manchester music scene in 24 Hour Party People, and the fictional side of their celebrity personas in Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story, both with the help of eclectic English director Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me).

Next is «It's Bugsy» (4 mins., HD), another one of those infuriating docs wherein the cast and crew fawn over some animal / fictional character (in this case, the bug - eyed gerbil that accounts for a good 40 % of Bedtime Stories» attempts at humour) as a big star who was great to work with.

And Author: The JT Leroy Story is stranger - than - fiction documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, which follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrStory is stranger - than - fiction documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, which follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrstory behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrstory of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.

It recounts a fictional meeting of Herman Melville (played by Ben Whishaw), an aspiring writer with a fascination for fish stories born out of his own ocean experiences, interviewing the last living survivor (Brendan Gleeson) of the Essex, hoping to reveal the real events of the ship's fateful voyage.

An attempt to spice up a true story with fictional characters and events leaves this film feeling artificial.

The excellent Oscar - winning 1984 documentary «The Times of Harvey Milk» did a much better job of bringing his story to life than this dramatized hodgepodge, which mixes fictional footage with snatches of newsreel clips from the era.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

With Michael Gornick replacing Romero as director, the film presents three new stories written by King and drawn from the pages of the fictional Creepshow mag.

They are very much related and feed into each other as the film addresses the differences between past and present and the fine line between reality and fantasy with one fictional story even serving as a metaphor for another.

The story opens with Captain America, played by Chris Evans (for the fifth time), leading a counter-terrorist mission in a fictional African country.

The bulk of the story takes place in the fictional town of Hawthorne, Nebraska, where Dave and Woody stop on the way to Lincoln to reunite with Woody's living relatives and old acquaintances — all of whom take his fantasy of good fortune for fact.

«I'm deeply keen to make sure the African story is told with specificity,» says Gurira, explaining that creating fictional African nations and peoples, while common, doesn't sit well with her.

While part of the larger universe of «The Avengers» series, this is the story of T'Challa, king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda, with a standout cast that includes Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong «o, Danai Gurira, Laetitia Wright, Winston Duke, Daniel Kaluuya, Sterling K. Brown and Angela Bassett

The story picks up with Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) visiting Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) at a fictional East Coast school with an Ivy League feel.

Inherent Vice — based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon — is the latest from American writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson, this time brining his masterful skills to a 1970s - based fictional crime story filled with twisty turns, oddball characters, and lots of drug use.

If not, Stephen Gaghan's Gold is a fanciful, fictional retelling of a story about Wall Street greed and hubris that is happy to take the cautionary tale and gild it with Hollywood glitz.

Other than that, «Bulletproof» is your standard vulgar, mindless, action - buddy flick, albeit with a love story at its center — something that might have marked the movie as a landmark among the kind of fictional relationships that date back to «Huckleberry Finn,» if it weren't trying so hard to deny its identity.

It's a fictional story of hostage negotiation, but Tony Gilroy's screenplay is filled with so many backroom deals, backchannel talks, and instances of parties giving and receiving the runaround that the story feels like it could have happened.

Theologians and historians will no doubt shred this interpretation to pieces, but it is an interesting fictional spin on a story that is already layered with multiple fictions.

Shane Hennessy caught up with director Nick Hamm to explore the journey behind his fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland.

As Susan reads the fictional story over the course of a lonely weekend, she reminisces about her relationship with Tony and the unforgiveable betrayal that led to their divorce, haunted by the novel's thematic undercurrents of resentment and rage that play out like retribution for her own sins.

Most of the film unfolds inside this fictional story, but Susan's history with the author is gradually fleshed out.

«Detroit» director Kathryn Bigelow and «The Florida Project» director Sean Baker explain how they were drawn to the space that blends fictional narratives with stories rooted in facts for their films.

The trials that this family goes through, when added to some clichéd characters, gives the film the appearance of a fictional, scripted story, not a film dealing with real events.

Here is the official press synopsis: «A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

Author: The JT Leroy Story Jeff Feuerzeig's stranger - than - fiction documentary follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrStory Jeff Feuerzeig's stranger - than - fiction documentary follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrstory behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrstory of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.