Sentences with phrase «fictitious characters»

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona Starting in the late 1950s, the Argentine master abandoned painting to make assemblages chronicling the tales of Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel, two fictitious characters he created and constructed out of trash, machine parts, and other castoffs.

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

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.

In some cases ~ students were more aware of fictitious characters than real figures from history.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fact that melody does not exist at an instant does not make it unreal; on the contrary it shows the fictitious character of durationless instants.

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

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.

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

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.

However, their distraction pales in comparison to the beefed up role for another fictitious character, Bard's (Evans, Dracula: The Untold Story) servant Alfrid (Gage, Hamlet), who is meant to be the film's comic relief, but ends up being so broad and overbearing, you'll long to find him beheaded and skewered on the end of an Orc's spear after just the first of a dozen intolerable scenes in which he appears.

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

Nashville and Nashville converge as Connie White stands in for Tammy Wynette, Lady Pearl (Barbara Baxley) for Minnie Pearl, the Misty Mountain Boys for the Misty Mountain Boys; some singers named Barnett lend themselves to the film even though a fictitious character named Barnett (Allen Garfield) ranks as one of the most unsavory we encounter.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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?

Luckily, Susan is a fictitious character.

Not exact matches

Many of you may recall the old fictitious Mad magazine character, Alfred E. Neuman, whose catchphrase line «What, me worry?»

It may seem odd to carefully craft fictitious clients with names and backstories, but defining these characters and their attributes will help identify valuable types of visitors and customers and enable you to coordinate the efforts of the various parts of your company in extracting maximum value.

The alternative to this fictitious ordering of life is made concrete in The Public Burning through the character of the Phantom, that «mysterious fearsome force,» to quote Uncle Sam, «which from time immemorious has menaced the peace and security of mankind and buggered the hopes of the holy» (p. 335).

No, not the fictitious children's character, Puss in Boots - this is hard man Mitchell «Boots» Mason (Gary Stretch).

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

It's just not a story that lends well to a dramatized presentation, and though the issues are important, they don't exactly make for an interesting plotline or for characters we enjoy following without a thematic underpinning to wrap it all around, much in the way that the mostly fictitious but highly watchable The Social Network does.

Instead it is a fictitious story about a family (his parents are played by Patricia Arquettea and Ethan Hawke) that took 12 years to shoot — and allowed all of the characters to age naturally.

Whenever I see «inspired by a true story» in the credits, I translate that to mean that the idea for the film may be based on a real person, but the majority of the story and its characters are fictitious and made - up for dramatic purposes.

The idea of putting a real character into a fictitious situation usually doesn't sit right with me.

(The character is given a fictitious name and is based on multiple police officers involved in the incident.)

He also knows how to cut together a pop / rock / rap soundtrack to action sequences and give them the propulsion necessary to get audiences prone to music - video editing a few moments of excitement as the principal characters go into their respective battles throughout the fictitious Midway City.

In another standout track, Small Fry's writer / director MacLane shares his influences (a day of fast food research in Portland, working in a ball pit) and the stories behind all of the short's characters, i.e. the fictitious movies and TV shows where Neptuna and others come from (more thought went into that than you might have guessed).

Although the characters here are fictitious, many Internet sites offer accurate historical information.

Much of the action takes place in the fictitious Wakanda and the white characters, including Freeman's obliging Ross, are the secondary characters.

Yet, the movie itself features this contrary disclaimer, albeit at the end and in small print: «Although based on historical events, all characters appearing in this work are fictitious.

They share a romantic moment while delivering a baby on the store's floor, and director Larry Charles (who directed Baron Cohen's previous antics as fictional characters in the real world — this one is entirely fictitious) ensures that we see their love blossom by placing the camera inside the birth canal.

Characters that, while composites of real - life people, cleverly break the fourth wall and address their fictitious nature for the sake of cinematic convenience.