Sentences with phrase «fictitious characters in»

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.

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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 questionIn 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 questionin research used to help solve design questions.

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).

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 characterIn 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 characterin 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 characterin 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 guessedIn 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 guessedin 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 guessedin 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).

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.

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.

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 himselfIn 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 himselfin history (with the most notable fictitious character being Maximus Meridas himself).

Three Summers (out Nov 2) has too many characters but it's still a likeable feel - good flick set around a fictitious folk music festival in Western Australia.

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

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.

If you open up Pandemic on January 21, you'll see characters living in an eerily similar - but - fictitious January 21 of their own.

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.

As you play your part in a sick game show called «DeathWatch,» set in the fictitious Varrigan City, your character racks up points by not only murdering his foes, but ending their lives in creative ways.

While exploring the world, you will meet a colourful assortment of characters in order to give your player access to both main missions and side quests in the fictitious town of Springdale.

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.

The artist became well known for her multipart photo series Untitled Film Stills (1977 - 80), in which she embodies female characters from fictitious movie scenes from the 1950s.

These figures, all women, are real and fictitious: the images sourced from the internet, they include such characters as Princess Leia and Annie Oakley, just two of a strong band of women ready to defend their kind in the event of a domestic battle.

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.

The 90 - minute, two - character play chronicles the relationship between the great abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and a (fictitious) assistant as the artist struggles in the late 1950s and early 1960s with a prominent and lucrative commission: murals for the walls of the luxurious Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan.

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.

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious.

All characters and events appearing in this work are fictitious.