Sentences with phrase «in classic fable»

The Prince Charming character plays in classic Fable style, the archer is played with an over-the-shoulder third - person shooter perspective.

Though the two books approach the modernization of fairy tales differently, readers of both will arrive at the same conclusion: The crises faced by a character in a classic fable are not always meant to be left behind in childhood.

Not exact matches

In this 1960 SI Classic reprinted from his 18th NHL season, Maurice Richard watches his fabled temper — and his weight

The scenario of hapless city slickers gamely trying to make a go of living in the country is an old classic, from Aesop's fable «The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse» and Shakespeare's As You Like It to Kaufman and Hart's 1940 play George Washington Slept Here and the»60s TV sitcom Green Acres.

While that may have been true in one of Aesop's classic fables, the Mojave Desert tortoise may need to adapt more quickly than it has in decades past.

Interpreted variously as a preachy liberal fable, an allegory of the McCarthy era and as a commentary on U.S. involvement in both Korea and WWII, it stands first and foremost as a fine, classic western movie.

Insofar as the script (by Chris Weitz) takes liberties, they're in the service of enriching, rather than upending, the classic fable.

By contrast, the New York Times called that classic Western with John Wayne, True Grit, when it came out in 1969, «a marvelously rambling frontier fable packed with extraordinary incidents, amazing encounters, noble characters, and virtuous rewards.»

by Walter Chaw Mouldering in a can for over a year (the film would smell pretty stale regardless past 1980), Impostor is the umpteenth adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story (whether directly or indirectly), a fable of identity that pales in comparison to an acknowledged classic like Blade Runner, an ambitious blockbuster like Total Recall, and an under - seen sleeper like Screamers.

While the forthcoming live - action Beauty and the Beast may be a re-re-imagining of a classic fable, its creators seem to be trying their best to blaze some kind of new trail for LGBTQIA representation in Disney films.

Think of the Honda Civic as bowls of porridge in the classic Goldilocks fable.

Pictures are worth thousands of words in this masterful rendition of a classic fable, illustrated with striking watercolors.

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The classic fable of the «Tortoise and the Hare» is a good analogy to trading; the tortoise wins the race in the end because he is slow but consistent, whereas the hare decides to take a nap and losses his focus on the race.

Mother 3, the last of the fabled and cult - classic Mother series created by Shigesato Itoi, was released for the Gameboy Advance in 2006.

In addition, the Xbox classic «Fable» series was originally planned to be released for the Dreamcast before the Xbox was created!

Wandering through the frontier reminded me of Fable or Final Fantasy or any other classic RPG for the way in which the world feels alive with or without your presence.

Morgan Bassichis adapts the underground classic The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977)-- an out - of - print book by Larry Mitchell, with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, that recounts a fable of radical queerness and the challenges and possibilities of communal life — in a series of three «new moon potluck theater» evenings.

An exhibition focusing on the real and mythical animals that appear in the legends, tales, and fables of the Islamic world, these marvellous creatures introduce timeless stories such as the well - known classics.