Sentences with phrase «in at fiction»

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There's a hint of cinematic fiction to the scenes or, at best, of a stunt that'll never work in the real world.

Yet, while both are at the height of hype in the tech world, much of the general public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the realm of science - fiction.

«The tax numbers in corporate filings are mostly fiction,» Alison Christians, a law professor at McGill University who specializes in tax matters, told us.

That scenario isn't science fiction in the slightest, the new study by Sandra Matz at Columbia Business School shows.

«As a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, told Inc. in January.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Let us begin, then, with one cold, hard - numbered truth: For much of corporate America, racial diversity continues to be at best a challenge — and at worst a flat - out fiction — particularly in the executive ranks.

I switched from academic papers to climate fiction a few years ago, seeking to inform, and in one story envisioned trouble at the BC / AB border... «Blown Bridge Valley», an excerpt from a climate reality novel series... a free e-book at the link here https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/497190

Here's one very basic fact you need to keep in mind: If you accept the Synoptic gospels» assertion that this all happened at Passover, then you MUST immediately know that the entire account is fiction.

Russ Christian thinking at its best, 5 billion people totally ignore or think the bible is just another poorly written of fiction, sure to your lot it may be the most influential book in history, not so much to everyone else and is getting less and less influential as time goes by.

At least the writers of the bible and Stephen King had one thing in common — they both wrote good fiction.

On a related note: Even if my understanding of the cartoon is wrong, there is indeed nothing wrong at all for hating a being which is:»...» is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control - freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.»

Indeed, the attempt at that rescue and restoration is the disturbing aspect of Percy's fiction, disturbing to the «liberal» mind in its common manifestation among us.

First published in 1907, GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a classic work of fiction that was right at home in its era but also way ahead of...

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

While her book at times threatens to become a kind of Answer Key to Waugh's novels, which themselves, in her hands, almost resemble mere romans clef, she does convincingly show that Waugh always drew from his own life in his fiction.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

Insofar as the problem of despair is overcome at all in Percy's fiction, it is through a confession that we are indeed «prisoners and exiles,» as he calls us — wanderers and wayfarers who can not avoid the quest for God and who thus must be ever waiting and watching, and listening for manifestations of the Holy in the most unlikely places.

McCarthy emerges in her fiction as a moralist, and friends who recognized themselves in her work (Philip Rahv in The Oasis, Edmund Wilson in A Charmed Life, her Vassar classmates in The Group) naturally bridled at her judgments.

And even though Jan Karon has tried to make her fiction cozy, I've never really felt at home in Mitford.

2) The bible is a work of fiction, or at least it's not a fully factual account of actual events in history.

In the 1970s and 1980s, his essays and fiction regularly took withering aim at the hypocrisies and absurdities of colonialism, and likewise at apartheid - era life in his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical, review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own book about South AfricaIn the 1970s and 1980s, his essays and fiction regularly took withering aim at the hypocrisies and absurdities of colonialism, and likewise at apartheid - era life in his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical, review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own book about South Africain his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical, review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own book about South Africa).

Perhaps I ought to be more surprised at his omission of historical fiction, including that of Madeleine Polland, written from a deeply Christian perspective; she wrote such works as Beorn the Proud, now available in reprint, and my personal favorite, The Queen's Blessing, set in the time of Saint Margaret of Scotland.

Editor's note: Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio is an ordained Episcopal Church priest and is author of «God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom.»

Editor's note: Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio is an ordained Episcopal Church priest and author of «God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom.»

My favorite high school memories take place in the library: lounging by the magazines, Quiz Bowl practice, the time I spent reading The Lord of the Rings at a table in the fiction section.

Tumminio said she wrote God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom, to explore the contention by conservative Christians that Harry Potter is akin to heresy.

Editor's Note: Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio is an ordained Episcopal Church priest and is author of «God and Harry at Yale: Faith and Fiction in the Classroom.»

It was an outlook on the world that not only went unchallenged at home but was the presupposition of all of England in the eighteenth century, and was utterly determinative for Jane's fiction, as Honan succinctly summarizes:

At this point in my career, I took a break from fiction to write Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.

Which is why we need smart TV more than ever, because fiction in all forms still steals past the watchful dragons of our own presuppositions and prejudices and helps us look at the world in a different light.

At a time when many writers of fiction appear content to spin out tales concocted by marketing firms, or else lose themselves in worlds of arch and arcane wordplay, Murdoch is extravagant, enthusiastic and earnest.

While the terror at the power and indifference of nature can be found in her other books, and is the foundation insight in Living by Fiction, the difference here is that she has claimed a place with others.

The teacup at hand, in this case, is contemporary fiction» (p. 11).

At worst, these words are fiction written by men in a religious cult trying to further their own power.

That imagination — fired, at least during the great middle years, by intense moral and religious perception — made Greene's fiction the best - realized portrayal in its time of the drama of the human soul.

Look at al the fiction bestsellers of the last two years and notice the trend in cover art.

To quote Kenyan feminist theologian Musimbi Kanyoro, «Those cultures which are far removed from biblical culture risk reading the Bible as fiction,» Conversely, societies that identify with the biblical world feel at home in the text.

It is wonderful that Lewis's work has only grown in popularity - 40 years ago in college, some people looked askance at our studying his fiction from a serious literary point - of - view.

I know it's way back at the top where this all started but I think it's hilarious that Doc basically says he believes the bible is historical fiction and in the very next comment Theo says the bible proves that abortion is murder.

Richard Duffield, a priest at St. Aloysius, says you can see the Catholic influence in Tolkien's fiction.

Julia Yost is a Ph.D candidate in English at Yale University and an MFA candidate in fiction at Washington University in St. Louis.

Are you so damn blinded by your 2000 year old book of fiction to see that our world population is at a hefty 7 billion and is set to increase by another 2 billion in the next 8 years?

I think we have to look at intent and effect — religion, at least in the modern era, creates complex explanations to (continue to) deceive, and does real damage to individuals and society, whereas pop fiction creates elaborate expanations and plots to entertain.

I place it in the same bucket as the bible (one of which is currently in the hallway outside my hotel room with the dirty dishes)-- at the best it is bad fiction and most likely it is just a load of crap.

Scientology roots are in Hubbard science fiction writings and techniques he supposedly stole from the occult organization the OTO, which at the time was run by Aleister Crowley in the UK and Hubbards contact was John aka Jack Whitesides Parson who ran the the Agape Lodge in Los Angeles.

This world view might be summarized in the words of Pascal's Pensée 507, which Updike quotes at the beginning of Rabbit, Run: «The motions of Grace, the hardness of the heart; external circumstances,» This epigraph may serve as a brief outline of Updike's literary effort: his theologically concerned fiction seeks to portray (1) external circumstances, (2) the hardness of the heart, and (3) motions of grace.

There comes a time when you need an everyday cider, a cider that teaches Martinelli's drinkers what cider can be if it decides to really put in the hours at work, instead of reading Game of Thrones fan fiction all day.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.