Sentences with phrase «fictitious character»

Struggling with writer's block and a lackluster love life, once - famous novelist Calvin (Dano) creates a beautiful fictitious character named Ruby (Kazan) who inspires him.

After trying to spin his lack of expertise as full credentials, Taylor invokes the long - debunked «Oregon Petition» as supposed proof against climate change, despite the petition's inception as a tactic of the fossil fuel industry, its lack of climate experts as signatories, and its inclusion of fictitious characters like the Spice Girls.

As a result, it is possible to fall in love not with a real person but with fictitious character imagined by human's mind.

In my subsequent books, although I used fictitious characters and locations, recalling and re-imagining real - life scenarios always came in very handy.

This «family time» turned out to be so much more than just that — my children learned a valuable life lesson: the importance of our military and the fact that these people are real, not fictitious characters in a distant place.

Inspired by a Joyce Carol Oates story about a woman who writes unanswered letters to movie stars and opera singers, Roberta was a lonely fictitious character who interacted with real people on the streets of San Francisco.

In user experience design, made famous by Alan Cooper's The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (1999), personas are fictitious characters based in research used to help solve design questions.

The most popular understanding of myth is as a narrative of a purely fictitious character concerning supernatural beings.

You may well ask: What is the point of introducing fictitious characters with ugly names into a serious book?

While there is nothing coincidental about yoga and this particular fictitious character, you should be taking to the core - top yoga numbers look and feel solid in the muscles.

With the vast amount of black online daters, a favorite fictitious character's name may be taken, so make it your own by tacking on a few numbers.

Posited as an existential comedy — pitting an author against her ostensibly fictitious character — it meanders through its core concept without bothering to work out most of the metaphysics.

Stressed to find more resources, NASA supervisor Vivian Michael (a presumably fictitious character played by Kirsten Dunst) calls upon Vaughn to suggest candidates from the West Computing Group to fill vacant roles within white - only areas.

In order to properly appreciate Gladiator, one should first resolve that the tale is purely a fantasy, although using actual people in history (with the most notable fictitious character being Maximus Meridas himself).

The handle chronicled the journeys of Rudd and other satirical fictitious characters until it amassed an impressive 3,000 tweets and 5,000 followers.

And according to Wikipedia, that second story is actually referenced in the novel «God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,» attributed to Vonnegut's own fictitious character, a science - fiction author named Kilgore Trout.

A London - based artist of Ghanaian descent, Lynette Yiadom - Boayke is portraitist of the most unusual kind, creating paintings of fictitious characters conjured from her imagination.

Performing scripted narratives in rhyming verse, the artist — with her husband Patrick Kelley and various family members — explores historical periods through fictitious characters such as nurses, soldiers, prostitutes, and saltimbanques.

Okay, for security reasons, I had to make this resume anonymous by taking out the famous names and inserting fictitious characters.

Unlike other write - ups, I can't use my imagination and include fictitious characters to present my skills and abilities.

To me what makes this all really interesting is that theater plays and films with fictitious characters — in contrast to Wikipedia, Google Maps or law blogs — never purport to be factual.

We have used fictitious characters to guide you in the easiest way.

As far as fictitious characters, Angel said: «If it's a fairy tale character, there's often a modern twist or the villains are more popular.»

In a study published in February in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 13 high - functioning adults with autism played a computerized ball - tossing game with three fictitious characters.

We can be moved to tears by the story of an absolute stranger or even of a fictitious character.

Using DNA samples from a 48 - year - old man and the 9 - month - old daughter of GAO's Gregory Kutz, who helped assemble the report, the team created 14 fictitious characters with various lifestyles.

System 1 and System 2 are so central to the story I tell in this book that I must make it absolutely clear that they are fictitious characters.

Ad texts (even if placed on images) must clearly state and represent the service or company advertised, with no fictitious characters or specific individuals.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a brilliant directed film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who manipulates the camera to give the illusion that the film is one continuous long take (which can get dizzying at times) giving a film that is resonate to a modern day audience as it examins these fictitious characters and their commentary on what it means to stay relevant.

This charming film stars Paul Dano (also from Little Miss Sunshine) as a writer who creates a fictitious character named Ruby (Zoe Kazan) who ends up coming to life.

Then it invents a fictitious character, Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke), who is contacted by the Board of Supervisors of the Winchester Rifle Co..

«There is an element where they recognize that women are a part of this society and that even a fictitious character like Black Panther can't exist in a world where women are marginalized»

The movie is ruined, people are in a panic, and Cecilia has a dilemma, having to choose between her husband, the fictitious character, and Gil Shepherd (also Daniels), the actor who plays Baxter and who also wants a chance at her attention.

Grab Todd's Cash is a personal finance scenario - based game in which the player teams up with a fictitious character to challenge «Todd» for his cash.

Empathy is not identified as a direct requirement within most state - approved teacher preparation programs pertaining to lesson plans, assignments, and textbooks, nor was it expected or assumed that there would be an emergence of empathy within a digital simulation, due to the separation of learner and instructor within the distance education course, in addition to the fictitious characters and profiles which comprised the students in the classroom.

Sony has this really neat race game named after him so he's a big hit with kids, though many of them think he's a fictitious character.

To deliver this tale to young readers, she created a fictitious character named Katie Casey a name borrowed from the original lyrics to the classic song, «Take Me Out to the Ball Game» who is the...

Not only for the fictitious characters I control, but for the memories and nostalgia that surround them.

Each had their own respective perks, their pluses and minuses, but the gaming media was only too happy to latch onto the idea of there being some sort of personal rivalry, an sense of enmity between the two fictitious characters.

Pace's works are characteristically inhabited by fictitious characters — invented by the artist — that draw upon mythology, art history, literature and contemporary subcultures.

«700 Club anchor touted global warming skeptics» petition reportedly signed by non-scientists, fictitious characters,» Media Matters, February 14, 2006.

The winner featured a mannequin dressed as a regularly changing seasonal, historical or fictitious character.

Does this «protection» apply to my fictitious character as well?

We have used a fictitious character to present this resume.