Sentences with phrase «in fictional form»

All in all, it's an educational read done in a fictional form and it makes reading history much more pleasant.

What about this subject made you want to explore it in fictional form?

There's a whole gamut of things I think it's nice to see reflected back to you in fictional form.»

But it was also a treatise in fictional form on the Christian vocation.

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Chesterton's feelings about Russian anti-Semitism were reflected in a series of pieces published during 1891 (written in the form of fictional Letters) in The Debater, the school magazine of which he was co-founder and a prolific contributor:

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

While they are rarely explicitly stated, they emerge in dramatic or narrative form in almost all forms of fictional and non-fiction programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and children's cartoons.

A narrative form of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.

Fritzsch's exposition is, for the most part, in the form of an imaginary discussion between Einstein, Newton and Adrian Haller, a fictional professor of physics.

I've always been interested in creative writing, and now that I'm retired I'm pursuing that interest in the form of fictional crime thrillers set in real locations.

Not being able to communicate regularly with the Russian girl you like you face to face, men are inclined to grant her fictional character, to idealize it, which in any case should not be allowed under any forms of russian girls dating.

Played by Michael B. Jordan with a juvenile ardor, rage boiling under his skin, Killmonger is a beautiful fictional creation, the embodiment of this passage from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's Rage and Time: «The person who is en - raged in the highest form enters the world like a bullet enters the battle... Wherever rage flames up we are dealing with the complete warrior.»

It's a thoughtful movie that recreates the 1950s TV sitcom in the form of a fictional such program called Pleasantville - a black and white town à la Leave to Beaver and Father Knows Best where everything that happens is expected and pleasant.

In a fictional European country where alchemy is an advanced form of science, brothers Edward (Ryosuke Yamada) and Alphonse (Atom Mizuishi) learn the art in an attempt to bring their mother back from the dead, but their plan goes awry (to put it mildlyIn a fictional European country where alchemy is an advanced form of science, brothers Edward (Ryosuke Yamada) and Alphonse (Atom Mizuishi) learn the art in an attempt to bring their mother back from the dead, but their plan goes awry (to put it mildlyin an attempt to bring their mother back from the dead, but their plan goes awry (to put it mildly).

He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.

Bilge's lucid summary of the twisty - turny documentary Kate Plays Christine — in which director Robert Greene follows around a real - life actress while she rehearses for a fictional movie about the life of a real person — got me thinking: Aren't we starting to need more words for the bounteously proliferating forms of nonfiction filmmaking besides just documentary?

Last week a video in the form of a news report from the fictional news program WHIH, featuring Leslie Bibb's Christine Everheart, first introduced in Iron Man, focused on the fallout of the Avengers exploits and -LSB-...]

This fictional account follows assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge) forming an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran (Bacon) to take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to involve the entire criminal justice system of Boston.

King and his alternative persona Richard Bachman (responsible for schlockier novels like The Running Man) here find fictional proxies in the form of novelist Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), tormented by his violent alter ego George Stark, a leather - clad creep who begins violently murdering various of the writer's associates.

Set in the fictional Californian neighbourhood of Gordita Beach in 1970 (the year PTA was born, incidentally), Inherent Vice is the tale of the shambolic private investigator Larry «Doc» Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), an inveterate dopesmoker — or «hippie scum», if you prefer the analysis meted out by his LAPD nemesis, Det. Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen (Josh Brolin, on magnificent form).

While Porterfield's aesthetic gambit with Putty Hill — utilizing documentary techniques to convey a fictional narrative — resulted in a remarkable hybrid form of experiential cinema, I Used To Be Darker arguably ups the ante by pairing a similarly observational naturalism (sans interviews) with more traditionally - plotted melodrama.

The fictional council house development in Greater Manchester that forms the backdrop to Shameless, one of Britain's longest - running drama series, is packed with dodgy incident.

Following their meet - cute, The Fault in Our Stars runs its course charting Hazel and Augustus's relationship from its somewhat aimless beginnings, in which she resists getting close to him out of fear of hurting him, through health crises that serve as a form of bondage, and eventually across an ocean to Amsterdam in search of the reclusive (fictional) author of Hazel's favorite novel.

This fits into the following syllabi: - A-Level - 3.1.2 - Understanding Different Business Forms IB - 1.2 - Types of Organizations This allows students to practice their knowledge of: - Features of Private Limited Companies Features of Public Limited Companies Advantages and disadvantages of each type in the context of an organization This case study is based on a fictional organization and contains a number of questions.

In studying Ancient Greece, teachers form groups of five and have their students reach a consensus on who should be the new patron goddess or god of the fictional city - state Dasteinia.

Creative writing may be in the form of bibliographies, fictional or non-fictional papers, short stories or even scripts and play writing projects.

My upcoming book is set at a fictional college that is based on the college I attended, so I want to blog about specific places on campus, professors or classmates who inspired certain characters, and campus ghost stories that appear in one form or another in my novel.

It comes down to individuals who don't want to admit that perhaps they're the problem, and want instead to form a rallying cry against a fictional enemy when in reality the only enemy is themselves.

First announced in the summer of 2008, Viz held portfolio reviews at San Diego Comic Con as part of their search for new original content, stating that «primary focus for the overall Viz original - comics plan is long - form fictional escapades.».

When writing your fictional stories, they will take shape in one of the following basic forms, each varying in length / word count: Novels Novellas Short Stories Flash Fiction The obvious difference, for the most part, is their word count / length.

«The Gryphon Press's inspiring books bring education about empathy and the human - animal bond to children in the form of beautiful fictional picture books.

I've always been interested in creative writing, and now that I'm retired I'm pursuing that interest in the form of fictional crime thrillers set in real locations.

This is the Police is, in its basic form, a police strategy game, wrapped inside a story featuring the last days of a stereotypical chief of police, Jack Boyd, in the fictional city of Freeburg in the... [Read More]

Granted, the original Valkyrie Profile «s big finale is a deus ex machina in truest fictional form, but it was never as rushed and incoherent as Hijikata's version.

Developers provide minimal hints in the form of blue or red flashing colors on key objects as players trek through this fictional world, named Vanguard, constantly scanning for objects in the environment to use.

In the latest video from DidYouKnowGaming, the gang discusses Sonic Adventure 2 ′ s backstory which includes the game's «American influences», Pepsi Man references, and the fact that Robotnik's cousin Maria may have contracted a fictional form of AIDS.

The result was over 30 paintings and sculptures accompanied by a fictional travelogue in book form.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

This important work is the second piece in a trilogy forming part of an ongoing series which navigates the notional architecture and collection of a fictional museum, with this work being the «Hall of Sculptures».

For Caravaggio, the lack of a detailed background (sacrificing a sense of location for shadows), was a form of «tromp l'oeil» an illusory visual trick, which is designed to persuade the viewer of his painting to believe that a fictional scene is actually occurring right in front of them.

Diversity in forms and the use of apparently distant tools and references are the point of departure to create a fictional sense of transcendence and fluidity.

Céline Condorelli is an artist who works with architecture, combining a number of approaches from developing structures for «supporting» (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites, resulting in projects merging installation, exhibition, politics, fiction, display, public space, sound, writing, and whatever else feels urgent at the time.

Through site - specific installations, including sculpture and digital prints on silk, this exhibition considers the ways in which artists provide an indirect view of reality, representing it as a fictional mythology drawn from its facts, forms, or histories, but never reflecting them directly.

This important work by the recent Turner Prize winner is the second piece in a trilogy forming part of an on - going series that navigates the notional architecture and collection of a fictional museum, with this work being the «Hall of Sculptures».

Wavering between documentary and fictional forms, the project examines the relationship between landscape and identity in the midst of the dam's construction, which required the relocation of more than one million people.

In Dinotopia, Gurney has created a fictional island utopia inhabited by humans and sentient dinosaurs that formed a complex, interdependent society.

In these works, Graham is playing a series of fictional characters, but this can also be considered a form of self - portraiture.

Also in 2004, an artist collective was formed that operates under the name of the fictional artist Reena Spaulings, creating collective paintings that are both reflective of the system and self - deprecating.

In 2003, a group of Cooper Union alumni formed an organization to maintain and promote the artistic legacy of «Bruce High Quality,» a fictional artist who died in the 9/11 attackIn 2003, a group of Cooper Union alumni formed an organization to maintain and promote the artistic legacy of «Bruce High Quality,» a fictional artist who died in the 9/11 attackin the 9/11 attacks.

Bookmakers» favourite Paul Noble produces less hectic, more studied art in the form of meticulous pencil drawings of a fictional metropolis called Nobson Newtown, and he was shortlisted for an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London.