Sentences with phrase «fictional women in»

A series of portraits depicting both friends and fictional women in their wedding dresses, the show seeks to interrogate why women still partake in this «antiquated ceremony.»

Kindle Nation readers have already helped to make Maryland lawyer Stephanie Ann «Sam» McRae one of the hottest hard - boiled fictional women in the Kindle Store by sending Debbi Mack's debut novel Identity Crisis — still just 99 cents!

Not exact matches

Still, our only women presidents (among them, Selina Meyer of Veep, Laura Roslin of Battlestar Galactica, Allison Taylor of 24, and Mackenzie Allen of Commander in Chief) have been fictional — like Wonder Woman and Betty Boop before them.

He describes the actions of rational agents in a market using an analogy based on a fictional newspaper contest, in which entrants are asked to choose the six prettiest women from a hundred photographs.

6 — In addition to Greek gods sleeping with Earth women, the fictional «Nephilim» were claimed to be the offspring of «the sons of god» and Earth women in Genesis 6:In addition to Greek gods sleeping with Earth women, the fictional «Nephilim» were claimed to be the offspring of «the sons of god» and Earth women in Genesis 6:in Genesis 6:4.

In a deeper sense, however, he is far from being fictional; I have corresponded with men and women like him for many years, and have spent countless hours in personal conference with theIn a deeper sense, however, he is far from being fictional; I have corresponded with men and women like him for many years, and have spent countless hours in personal conference with thein personal conference with them.

For women and girls all over the world, the city of Wakanda represents a fictional world in which their intelligence, alongside their fierce beauty, is an accepted norm of society.

The Friends study also found staffers doing nothing while children were waiting around, eager for something to do; park district attendance records that often appeared «inflated and fictional ``; a total lack of evaluation of programs or job descriptions to keep up with changing trends in recreation, and a severe shortage of programming for girls and women.

In middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fieldIn middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fieldin upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fieldin so called «hard science» fields.

«Their lower interest in intimacy led them to be less interested in the fictional woman, thus seeing themselves as being less flirty, and in turn, imagining the woman as less sexually interested in them,» Hart said.

A child of the eighties, I grew up with two main fictional images of single women in their thirties — Bridget Jones, the miserable singleton, desperately seeking love and dissecting every aspect of her life, whilst constantly asking herself why she was still single.

A lonely Japanese woman (Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, is in fact, real.

Aside from the main themes and characters, there's that divorced - women's support group, run by Dorothy's cynical sister (the expertly wisecracking Bonnie Hunt); a «child - care technician» obsessed with modern jazz; and run - ins with various sporting figures, both real (from Frank Gifford to Katarina Witt) and fictional, such as a superstar quarterback played by TV's Jerry O'Connell, and his hard - nosed dad (an uncredited Beau Bridges).

If anyone involved with the project ever thought the caregiver in the book sounded rather strict (Mary Poppins is described as «practically perfect in every way»), they are about to learn that the fictional character is nothing compared to the woman who penned her.

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.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, a portrait of a fictional fashion designer in the couture scene of 1955 London, indulges in similar revels, placing the film firmly in the tradition of the melodramatic women's pictures of the 1940s: it's filled with achingly vivid close - ups (Anderson also shot the film) of shining colored threads, needles piercing thick fabric, rough - edged hand - sewn labels, intricate lace patterns, and rich cloth falling in sculptural folds.

Series creator Nic Pizzolato has previously revealed that the second season of the series, set in a fictional California town, would be about «hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system.»

Faced with an impending fixed marriage in his fictional African homeland of Zamunda, Akeem opts to jet across to the other side of the globe in search of a woman who'll love him not just for his fortune.

And that is especially the case given the demand that female characters — and actual human women — be constantly likable has a way of limiting the stories we can tell about fictional women, and imposing restrictions on the opportunities and chances granted women in the real world.

In an unexpected twist, much of what's played for hyperbole in the fictional film presages what happens in «Their Finest,» during which Catrin comes into her own, like so many women of her generatioIn an unexpected twist, much of what's played for hyperbole in the fictional film presages what happens in «Their Finest,» during which Catrin comes into her own, like so many women of her generatioin the fictional film presages what happens in «Their Finest,» during which Catrin comes into her own, like so many women of her generatioin «Their Finest,» during which Catrin comes into her own, like so many women of her generation.

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)

Of course, there's a woman by his side, Jane (Carmen Ejogo), a fictional composite of Baker's three real wives, who represents an uncomplicatedly dull cheerleader for the great man in the film's center ring.

Patricia Highsmith is involved with a married woman in this fascinating fictional biography of the late writer

Gene Evans (from The Steel Helmet) stars as the (fictional) journalistic genius who starts his own paper and introduces headlines, bylines, editorial cartoons, and the mechanized printing press and manages to raise enough money to build the pedestal for the Statue Of Liberty while fighting off the attempts of the rich woman owner of the biggest paper in town to destroy him.

Set in fictional Wessex County in south - west England in the 1870s, Thomas Vinterberg's («The Hunt») adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd chronicles the ups and downs of Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan, «Inside Llewyn Davis»), a smart, headstrong woman who is fiercely proud of her independence when it comes to choosing suitors....

From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating position women had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional wowomen had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional woWomen — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional wowomen characters try to move through their lonely fictional worlds.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score was presented to: The Octopus Project for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Director: David Zellner, Screenwriters: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner)-- A lonely Japanese woman becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in a fictional film is, in fact, real.

Speaking to Popsugar Australia, the Kenyan - Mexican actress revealed that the joy of Wakanda — the fictional African nation where Black Panther is set — is that «we see women alongside men, and they're powerful in their own right, but them assuming their power in no way diminishes the males in their lives».

It's not just a coming - of - age story for these fictional sisters, but for the country as a whole, shining a spotlight on the horrors of arranged marriage and the general lack of freedom for women in the less progressive parts of Turkey.

Black Panther was praised for its representation of women in Wakanda, the fictional African nation.

The movie then gives way to the fictional world of the film proper as Levy, playing an artist named David, meets and falls in love with a young Hungarian woman named Enci, enacted by Bordán.

There's a little of her mother in Nancy, obviously, and the way Max takes on a maternal role for this fictional woman, who is and isn't her mother, is genuinely amusing and sweet.

Take a romantic recommendation from our virtual bookshelf, and curl up with your Kindle and a glass of wine and enjoy getting lost in the fictional life of a modern - day woman.

And as James shares in a guest post, these women aren't as fictional as you might expect.

Evans teamed up with veteran author Rachel Hauck to write the first in a four book fictional series about a young Southern woman, Jade Fitzgerald, and her evolving quest to balance the traumatic events of her past with the bright prospects on her horizon.

Pipkin delves into the struggle and invisibility of women in science by examining the true story of Caroline Herschel and the fictional accounts of Siobhan Ainsworth and the Seven Sisters.

Goodman's «Eighty Days» is a thoroughly researched and well written account of two 19th century woman journalists who attempt to beat the fictional character created by Jules Verne who traveled around the world in 80 days.

In Janet Benton's fictional debut, Lilli de Jong, a young woman finds herself pregnant and alone in 19th - century PhiladelphiIn Janet Benton's fictional debut, Lilli de Jong, a young woman finds herself pregnant and alone in 19th - century Philadelphiin 19th - century Philadelphia.

An interesting non-fiction book about an attempt by two women in 1889 to circumnavigate the globe in less than the 80 days it took Jules Verne's fictional character, Phileas Fogg.

Also noticed that one of the characters in the story is named after a friend of the author's, Jill, and both the actual and fictional character designs and makes women's garments from re-cycled materials.

«Double Whammy» delves into the mind of fictional character Ida Mae Potts, the youngest woman on death row in Kentucky.

For example, Elizabeth Wein's harrowing but hopeful Rose Under Fire follows a single (fictional) teenage pilot into the depths of Ravensbrück, a women's concentration camp in Nazi Germany.

In honor of Women's History Month, we're highlighting 10 new books that give young readers a fresh batch of heroines, from new fictional favorites to historical role models getting some much - deserved attention:

In The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Louisa's (fictional) romance with Joseph Singer ended up inspiring the Jo and Laurie romance in Little WomeIn The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Louisa's (fictional) romance with Joseph Singer ended up inspiring the Jo and Laurie romance in Little Womein Little Women.

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.

We women know the men in romance novels are fictional wonderful guys.

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

It might have been my father's failing health, or it might have been the fact that I was older now; it might have been the reality that already I cared deeply for the fictional women and men in my new novel.

Author Steven M. Wells explores the issues in a fictional narrative that is at once a seminar on the law concerning sexual assault on campus and the story of a young woman discovering its complexities at a personal level.

Who she represents: Joshua Ferris (To Rise Again at a Decent Hour), Bret Anthony Johnston (Remember Me Like This), Lily King (Euphoria), Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You), Cristina Henriquez (The Book of Unknown Americans), Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew's Last Stand), Mia Alvar (In the Country), Madeline Miller (The Song of Achilles), Alice Sebold (Lucky), Kathleen Kent (The Heretic's Daughter), Nicole Dennis - Benn (Here Comes the Sun), Megan Mayhew Bergman (Almost Famous Women), Paula McLain (The Paris Wife), Kevin Wilson (The Family Fang), Charles Yu (How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniversIn the Country), Madeline Miller (The Song of Achilles), Alice Sebold (Lucky), Kathleen Kent (The Heretic's Daughter), Nicole Dennis - Benn (Here Comes the Sun), Megan Mayhew Bergman (Almost Famous Women), Paula McLain (The Paris Wife), Kevin Wilson (The Family Fang), Charles Yu (How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universin a Science Fictional Universe)