Sentences with phrase «in a fantasy world on»

For those of you who don't know much about Dragon Fin Soup it takes place in a fantasy world on the back of a giant dragon - turtle named Asura.

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In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.

Try not to tell another sane person to think about something that never happened cept in some fantasy world where 95 % of mankind was ignorant to the world around him and the other % was high on readily available opiates and power trips.

Third, the reason I say that Christians are generally happy is because usually on these kinds of boards, I see Christians proclaiming their faiths and atheist says we are «delusional» and living in a fantasy world.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

But this is possible and right in a fantasy world, for the givens of this world are not highly complex beings; the focus is not on human transformation but on the struggle of good and evil forces in the world, a struggle of mythic proportions, and it can be resolved mythically.

So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.

Getting Real Oh, interesting you struck a chord «living in that fantasy world just doesn't work» I stumbled on this site for some solid answers to biblical questions just to get hit with the atheist buzz saw.

Instead of investing theological significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects of sense data, or about the reality of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role of imagination, a term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.

So I will simply remark on several qualities of the created (in Tolkien's terms, «subcreated») world in which fantasy characters live and move and have their being.

The reconstruction of «that which was» may rationally appear to be merely a fantasy for idle minds; but in fact the meticulous work accomplished in the past hundred years by the collectors of fossils, the results which they have patiently recorded in innumerable papers and in barbarous language, perfectly incomprehensible to non-initiates, the paraphernalia of systematized knowledge and the clutter on the museum shelves, all this has made a contribution of the utmost importance to the world's thinking.

The whole time I thought teaching was Monday through Friday, out by 3:00 pm, no work on weekends or summers, and boy was I in a fantasy world — ha!

Of the four teams still left in the World Cup, Brazil, Germany, Holland and Argentina — here's our fantasy XI, based on the performances of the stars from the said nations at the tournament so far.

and he will pay the ultimate price if he carry's on living in fantasy world.

Too many of them would rather go fast on their computers in a fantasy world.

but the birth i want isn't just some selfish fantasy — i'm making these choices based on what science and millenia of birthing women have proven are the safest, healthiest, and most positive ways to bring a child into the world / interact with them in their first few hours of life.

By tolerating «wrong» answers or allowing their children to live in a fantasy world for a while, parents can put off the emphasis on skill - building and achievement, researchers say.

Instead, they log many many hours in fantasy worlds with stuffed animals, and putting on costumes for a show, which is great stuff, but the construction toys are all collecting dust.

Whatever a baby grows up to be, it's sure his Mom and Dad have had their fair share of fantasies about what little Junior will become when he leaves the nest and sets out on his journey in this great, wide world.

«The mayor seems to be lost in his own fantasy world of education, the one where reality doesn't apply,» declared UFT President Michael Mulgrew in response to the mayor's State of the City speech on Jan. 12, in which, among other proposals, he threatened to fire half the staffs in 33 schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant support.

«It's reassuring to have a politician paying attention to reality rather than living in a fantasy world where the laws of physics don't apply,» says Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics.

We have recently developed strategies for identifying youths at risk, for helping to prevent them from descending into a destructive fantasy world and for reacting expediently in the event of an imminent or actual shooting [see box on page 57].

Modern poker tournaments did not flourish until the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas took off in the 1970s, launching thousands of how - to books on foolproof poker strategies for amateurs harboring fantasies of beating the pros.

It's just... I usually love the stuff you come up with on this blog, but for me at least, it kind of felt like you just succumbed to the style lords and forgot that your audience is normal moms who live in the real world where utility is high on the list of priorities and spillage of all kinds of wet substances is inevitable, and not some fantasy world full of perky boobs and washboard abs where people buy gorgeous yet uncomfortable sandals.

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Its emotional impact is shaped by the unique perspective of the narrator - a typical teenager telling the tale out of her own youthful concerns (having fun, her uncertain future), combining her beliefs about the dual contradictory nature of humanity («you just got half - devil and half - angel in ya»), and imaginative and fearsome fantasies of religious judgment and divine retribution (the flaming end of the world, and the Devil's presence on Earth).

In this low budget fantasy adventure from Britain, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs» 1918 science fiction novel, a German submarine holding American prisoners of war during World War I, veers off course.

Bumbling, overstuffed, and set in the middle - class fantasy world of Richard Curtis, Love Actually is an uneven ensemble romantic comedy that frequently appears on lists of the top Christmas movies.

Half - Elvin Wil, Elvin Princess Amberle and Human Eretraia are on a quest to prevent an army of demons from destroying the world in The Shannara chronicles: Season One of MTV's adaptation of Terry Brooks» epic fantasy novels.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

Underdogs (Unrated) Animated fantasy revolving around foosball game figurines who come to the assistance of a nerd (Matthew Morrison) who neds to win a match against the best soccer player in the world (Nicholas Hoult) in order to hold on to the woman of his dreams (Ariana Grande).

Mary and the Witch's Flower Rated PG for some action and thematic elements Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85 % Available on Disc and Streaming Written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (former key animator at Studio Ghibli) Mary and the Witch's Flower is a hand - drawn animated fantasy which follows a young girl who discovers a hidden world in the clouds where she is enrolled to become a witch in training, only to reveal secrets hidden by those she knows on Earth.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

The plot is being held under wraps, but it's in the vein of The Jungle Book and The Wizard of Oz that centers on a young boy who travels to a fantasy world in his dreams to break away from reality.

Loosely based on real events, «Heavenly Creatures» follows two teenage girls, Juliet (Kate Winslet) and Pauline (Melanie Lynskey), as they meet, fall in friend - love, obsess over male movie stars, build up an increasingly ornate fantasy world and, ultimately, plan and execute a murder.

Should he move on to «realistic» stories, or stay in his fantasy world?

The references work on many levels, from a father reading the book to his daughter, to a crucial plot point, and the fantasy world that Alec Fenton (Stellan Skarsgard, Dancer in the Dark, Timecode) lives in.

Rango, a CG - animated project for Paramount starring Johnny Depp as the lead, due for a March 2011 release (also based on a script by Logan); Clue, based on the Hasbro board game (the second time the game has been adapted, Tim Curry starred in the 1985 version); and a story based on an article from the Wall Street Journal «about the online fantasy role - playing world and its debilitating impact on the real lives of players,» according to the trade.

That doesn't mean people have forgotten about it though, as Chucklefish games has taken the framework - cutesy sprites on big maps fighting in simple - but - deep turn - based battles - and applied it to their own fantasy world.

A variation on the theme of Chet Baker: Robert Budreau's Born To Be Blue takes some lesser - known points from the life of the junkie cool jazz icon (an aborted movie project with Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, the half - dozen forgotten albums he cut for World Pacific in 1966, etc.) and reworks them into a fantasy anti-biopic.

Films opening in limited release this weekend include Well Go USA's Korean fantasy - drama Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds, while Sony Pictures Classics is bowing Happy End, Oscar - nominee Michael Haneke's drama centered on a bourgeois family aloof to the refugee crisis in their backyard.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosIN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosin a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

As in the previous films, Nolan and his co-writer, his brother Jonathan, draw on real - world issues to spice up the fantasy, and with dubious results: with its rampaging Occupy Gotham anarchists, philanthropic billionaires and decent cops who ignore due process, this is so staunchly right - wing it'll thrill all those Fox News anchors outraged by «The Muppets».

Casino Royale is fantasy in a world that's earned its darkness, a mature film that doesn't demand to be taken seriously but doesn't expect you to believe that the world is the same as it was when Sean Connery leered at Ursula Andress walking out of the surf like Venus on the half shell.

Porco Rosso (Disney, Blu - ray) is Miyazaki's fantasy of a loner flying ace, a World War I hero who lives in isolation on an island in the Adriatic Sea and patrols the skies on a personal mission to keep them safe from high - flying sky pirates in an imaginary post-World War I Italy.

If The Iron Lady and My Week with Marilyn featured real life icons in based - on true stories, The Artist (released 30th December) features two fictitious icons from what almost pertains to a fantasy world.

Niccol, who up to this point has earned a good reputation for exploring themes of reality vs. fantasy, takes a story wholly rooted in real - world politics based on actual people and events and makes his least believable film to date.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF --(February 15, 2011)- Return to the magic and wonder of C.S. Lewis» epic world in this third installment of the beloved The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy - adventure series when THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER sails into Blu - ray and DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on April 8th.

It's a fantasy on what might happen in a world divested of bigotry.

On Lightning's conclusive journey through the worlds created in FINAL FANTASY XIII, her action combat system gives players directly control each battle maneuver and decision.