Sentences with phrase «high fantasy as»

In the next installment of The Elder Scrolls Online, Bethesda engulfs us with high fantasy as we are taken back to the Summerset Isles: home of the regal, elegant, proud (some might say snobby) High Elves.

In the next installment of The Elder Scrolls Online, Bethesda engulfs us with high fantasy as we are taken back to the Summerset Isles: home of the regal, elegant, proud (some might say snobby) High Elves.

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They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

The Bad: Entertainment was a bit high, as were gifts, but this has a lot to do with the holidays (yes, we still do gifts) and fantasy football.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

Like Elizabethan drama, they are so heterogeneous in form as practically to constitute a rebellion against classical restraints; they simply can not resist mixing intense pathos with high comedy, stateliness with farce, heroic magnificence with nursery fantasy.

Transhumanists, like other libertarians, make the mistake of thinking that the high - spirited few, who are enamored of ascetic self - overcoming and relentless power - accumulating work, will be welcomed as the model and standard for the security - oriented many, who prefer to live according to their appetites, and whose escape fantasy is giant cruise ships rather than silicone bodies.

Although Rodgers does offer an additional rushing dimension (Rodgers out - rushed Brees 259 to 5 last season), it's worth noting that Brees actually finished last season as the higher ranked fantasy performer.

On the flip side, if you view the Sanders comeback as a progressive fantasy that has no shot of actually taking place, you shouldn't place your bet on Hillary right now, as her odds are sky - high (she is currently -240 to win the White House at BetOnline).

Alexis should also be very high on the shortlist to be included in your fantasy team, as he is relishing his new role in the side, but there is the possibility that Olivier Giroud could well be selected to play up front now he has returned to fitness, and the Chilean could suffer if he is benched or put back in his previous role.

A receiving floor this high is unfair when coupled with Gurley's plethora of fantasy - friendly opportunities on the ground, as he's converted a league - high 18 carries inside the 5 - yard line into a league - high nine touchdowns from that distance.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg said it's «pure fantasy to think that the tax bill will lead to significantly higher wages and growth, as Republicans have promised,» adding: «Had Congress actually listened to executives, or economists who study these issues carefully, it might have realized that.»

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high - mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

Over the course of her extremely high - profile modeling career she has posed for Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated, been the Miller Light «fantasy girl» and the face of Tommy Girl, as well as graced numerous magazine covers.

In this romantic thriller, Cassidy Rae stars as Amy Miller, a sexy, virginal high school cheerleader and the current object of Derek Bradshaw's fantasies.

Unfortunately, by ditching the high ground in favor of not - especially - convincing theatrics, the potency of the film becomes diluted to the point where we're viewing the infiltration of these secret cell groups as a fantasy, and therefore don't buy many of their tactics and plausible enough to keep us on the same edge we'd be teetering on if we felt the authenticity through and through.

The hushed, claustrophobic ambience of high privilege and repressed feeling occasionally cracks, as this horror movie reveals itself also to be a rich, agonizing melodrama and a dry comedy of manners set in a fantasy Manhattan of crème caramel wainscoting and black - tie evenings at the opera.

The fish - out - of - water fantasy ranks as one of the best - looking animated features ever rendered in high definition.

So, as the release date drew near, Capcom switched tactics and touted the game's RPG - ness, talking about how it lets gamers explore a high - fantasy world.

As indicated by the tearful remonstrance of the ex-wife character represented by Cate Blanchett, emotional attachments are doomed to become less concrete or clearly defined, the highs fewer and far between (take the screen time give to Poots vs. the late appearance of Lucas), calling for more extreme measures (Natalie Portman's adulterous character), but always prone to fail since the pursuit of happiness is merely a debauched, self - serving fantasy.

There are a series of fantasy sequences where Simon imagines his gay online friend as this or that kid from school, a Halloween party with Simon and BFF Leah (Langford) dressed as John and Yoko, and we figure out this Georgia high school has parents hip enough to not mind swearing in front of the kids and not strict enough to care when those kids come home from that party drunk.

Pan can be read as a death dream where children killed by a German bomb — shown in loving Pearl Harbor high - to - low tracking shot — enact a fantasy of salvation at the moment of their expiration.

As the naive Iona enters high school, she starts resisting Lyn's suffocating neediness and making hesitant steps into the outside world, only to be beaten back into her fantasy life by a gang of popular mean girls.

by Jefferson Robbins I suspect «Game of Thrones» has started to find its high - fantasy elements as tedious as I have.

But those high tech toys were like big kid fantasies come alive, magnificently designed vehicles rolled out as lovingly detailed miniatures with a sense of awe and wonder, and the success of the spawned two feature films that upped the ante on the spectacle.

So its not hard to read his latest offering Downsizing — an effects - driven, high - concept fantasy, no less — as a way of breaking the mould of industry and audience expectations.

Step 4: Do pay attention to the hilarious performance by Reno 911 «s Thomas Lennon, as Mike's former geeky high school friend, now a multi-millionaire software designer with a penchant for all things fantasy — from Star Wars to Lord of the Rings.

That rawness ratchets the emotional stakes even higher as the movie tap dances its way out of downtown L.A. and into the realm of the surreal, a fantasy where the lovers float away from their cares, Fred and Ginger style, at least for a few hours, before tumbling back down to the earth.

The result is Sleeping Beauty, an art house drama which stars Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) as Lucy, a university student who takes on a high paying job fulfilling the fantasies of older men while she is placed in a deep sleep.

Those leaders will no longer be able to maintain the fantasy of high - school educators floating from classroom to classroom like Mary Poppins because of their love of children while at the same time haggling over pay, benefits, and working conditions as if they were automobile workers.

This logic is why the new wave of high school reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (see «A Foundation Goes to School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the family.

The lofty goals, such as attaining a high school graduation rate of 90 percent and eliminating drugs and violence from all American schools, remain in the realm of fantasy.

As Angela Highland, I write the Rebels of Adalonia high fantasy trilogy with Carina Press!

Rarely has there been a tale as gripping, or one as likely to seize the minds and hearts of a generation, as George R. R. Martin's epic high fantasy series.

«In this hard - to - put - down follow - up to the Farseer Trilogy, Hobb maintains the high standards of her earlier fantasy series... What starts as a very good read shifts into a stay - up - until - 2:00 a.m. - to - finish type of book.»

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin's monumental epic cycle of high fantasy.

As a result, non-fiction titles of a complex nature (i.e. research - based) and those genres outside of the Chinese popular realm — such as hard sci - fi, epic fantasy, horror, high - tech thriller, historical fiction, etc — generally have difficulty in finding enthusiastic translatorAs a result, non-fiction titles of a complex nature (i.e. research - based) and those genres outside of the Chinese popular realm — such as hard sci - fi, epic fantasy, horror, high - tech thriller, historical fiction, etc — generally have difficulty in finding enthusiastic translatoras hard sci - fi, epic fantasy, horror, high - tech thriller, historical fiction, etc — generally have difficulty in finding enthusiastic translators.

Now Amazon is describing his newest novel, Reamde, as «a high - stakes espionage thriller about a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game!»

Though known primarily for her award - winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as # 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, «chicklit» suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal mommy lit.

Even back then, some bookstores struggled between shelving it in «horror» or «fantasy,» let alone such subgenres as «high fantasy» or «dark fantasy.»

By combining easy - to - read magazine - style layouts with high - res color images and videos, and links to additional content — such as the fantasy football and statistics examples used in the video — publishers could provide an experience superior to today's websites, particularly on large touchscreen displays.

Having a dinner or lunch in the maze of Balinese soothing - green rice terraces that has been well - known throughout the world is no longer a fantasy; Teras Padi Cafe offers both high quality food and natural surrounding, a green rice terrace carpet as long as your eyes can see, will fulfill your fantasy and spoil both your eyes and stomach.

Petty cites everything from heavy metal album covers, high fantasy comic art and 15th Century painter Heironymus Bosch as inspiration for Brütal Legend «s heavily stylized characters and landscapes.

In the end, as a Civilization series and fantasy fan, I found myself having fun with a game that takes a slightly stale gameplay formula, slaps some high fantasy paint on top with a few new features and puts it all to good use.

The dialogue and writing are firmly entrenched in the realms of typical High Fantasy, and I have to say that as an avid reader of fantasy I honestly through I'd gotten away from that style of speech years ago.

During the six - month period ended September 30, 2015, in the Digital Entertainment segment, «SENGOKU IXA,» a PC browser game, and games for smartphones such as «DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS SUPER LIGHT,» «SCHOOLGIRL STRIKERS,» «FINAL FANTASY RECORD KEEPER,» and «Kai - ri - Sei Million Arthur» have continued to ride high on its already solid growth, and «MOBIUS FINAL FANTASY» made an encouraging start.

The fantasy - based platformer garnered praise for its pleasant looks and creative puzzles, and the 2011 sequel achieved even higher scores, as the studio refined their approach to the genre to near perfection.

Although I would classify it as a classic high fantasy design, it's not like the Elves that you might find in Lord of the Rings.