Sentences with phrase «in fictional settings»

It put you in fictional settings that ranged from kaiju - fighting robots to Jerry Seinfeld's apartment.

Roleplaying games, also known as RPG games, let you jump in the sorcerer's seat and drive the action as you assume the role of a host of characters in fictional settings.

In Home (2015), a Booklist Editor's Choice title, readers are encouraged to think about what home means by examining the dwellings of people around the world and in fictional settings, before being asked to describe their own homes.

More often than not, when Christianity is discussed either in a fictional setting or in relation to real events, it is in the context of an issue related to human sexuality.

I watched an old Star Trek last night where a delusional guy believed he was working for God... it's funny when you see this sort of thing in a fictional setting but scary when some idiot believes this for real.

They are films that are either documentaries or real life dramas that take the basic true elements of a story and put it in a fictional setting.

DESIR: I think that there's something to be said for seeing something played out in a fictional setting that makes it less fraught for a teenager than doing research on it.

Far Cry 5 takes place in the fictional setting of Hope County, Montana and revolves around the player's quest to take down a religious cult leader and his equally disturbed children with the assistance of three other key protagonists.

Based in a fictional setting, the series is loaded with mystery, excitement, unique characters and, of course, magic.

Far Cry 5 review - the latest in this long line of video games from Ubisoft features cult leader Joseph Seed and his group of followers and family members in the fictional setting of Hope County, Montana.

It's easy to get lost in the fictional setting of Hope County.

A role - playing game (RPG) is a broad family of games in which players assume the roles of characters, or take control of one or more avatars, in a fictional setting.

Not exact matches

Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.

Set in a fictional ad agency in New York City, the show is almost a time capsule of a lost way of life.

Explanation: Disney's «Aladdin» is set in the fictional city of Agrabah near the Jordan River in the Middle East.

And Amazon's streaming station, despite being set in a fictional 1960s, draws at least a few explicit connections to contemporary politics.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

The popular eerie podcast, set in a fictional desert town, will visit the Olympia Theater in Miami on Friday, July 7.

John McAteer's study of ambiguity in narrative along with Phil Tallon's witty dialogue between three fictional characters on a Tarantino set illustrate this ambivalence quite well.

The book wastes no time in setting up the cosmology of its fictional universe: the stakes of our young protagonist Nita's first forays into wizardry involve a battle between Life and Entropy.

Set in fictional Hope County, Montana, Far Cry 5 leads the player against the quasi-Christian cult of Eden's Gate, lead by sadistic preacher Joseph Seed.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

This isn't like telling a kid that broccoli is a dessert and hoping she eats it; this is encouraging a kid to sustain a belief in a character that she's bound to recognize in countless commercials, mall settings, and catalogs in the coming years, having already been made aware of his fictional identity.

All this and more is on the agenda of a fictional conference set 25 years in the future

Next Wave asked a panel of experts to consider the following fictional case study describing researchers embroiled in a «custody battle» of sorts over an unpublished data set and an antibody:

The Philpott is both independent and imaginary, because, although she wanted the story set in her hometown of Cambridge, Goodman strove to create «a fictional space» rather than getting distracted by having to recreate the details of life at Harvard or MIT.

As someone steeped in the technicality of how our team at Revive & Restore will employ advancing biotechnologies to achieve our goal of ecological restoration it was a welcome and heartening reprieve to read an entertaining and creative take on how fictional twelve - year - old Chris remakes the passenger pigeon with some help from a remarkable secret family history while treading secretly himself to defy the limitations set upon him for his young age.

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.

The game is set in the fictional British town of Wellington Wells in an alternate history

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Of course, the movie, which unfolds almost entirely within its fictional campus setting, is contrived in ways to support its microcosmic, pseudo-satirical vibe.

Fictional medical procedural set in a military hospital in Afghanistan, where doctors and nurses from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and other allied countries provide surgical care to troops.

Far from your ordinary music doc, the film is loosely set in a fictional 24 hours in Cave's life as he examines his own songwriting process and transforms his music from an unformed sketch to a live show scorcher.

Yes, the movie's central setting of Wakanda is a fictional African kingdom, but it metaphorically stands in for an exploration of what happens when members of a disadvantaged group gain money, power, and influence.

It is set in the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda, where tribesmen have succeeded in harnessing the energies of the alien metal «vibranium,» which centuries before struck the planet during a meteor shower.

Writer - director Tanya Hamilton's intellectually ambitious debut drama Night Catches Us is all the more notable for setting well - drawn fictional characters in a fraught, real moment in civil rights history.

Silvia's the passionate citizen of a fictional African country in an otherwise realistic setting — the world of interpreters at the United Nations.

Amirpour's movie is all set in the fictional suburbs of Bad City, Iran, an eerie ghost town haunted by The Girl (an excellent Sheila Vand), a young vampire who finds her way into this miserable circle of people.

Meanwhile the Steel Belt setting affords additional echoes of Springsteen-esque blue collar life as Abrams tints in the personal problems and concerns of his fictional families (Super 8 was shot in Weirton, West Virginia, the same town Michael Cimino used for The Deer Hunter).

The LEGO City Undercover Wii U version will feature a sandbox style gameplay, much like GTA and Saint's Row, set in the fictional LEGO City.

Marvel's African superhero Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) is part of a charismatic cast in this stand - alone entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe set in the fictional nation of Wakanda and directed by Creed's Ryan Coogler.

Jauja takes Alonso's contemplative portraits of men on the outskirts of civilization and adds professional actors (Viggo Mortensen in the Viggo Mortensen role, a multilingual yet taciturn historical military man), a period setting, a fully fictional story, and maybe even some magic to achieve his biggest minimalist movie yet.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, new king T'Challa, AKA Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), has taken his rightful place on the throne after his father's passing.

Set in present - day South America in the fictional country of Tecala (Latin America's second - ranking producer of cocaine after Colombia, we are told), «Proof of Life» cannily appropriates aspects of «Casablanca» for dramatic ballast.

Ditching the MCU's familiar roster of heroes (they don't get as much as a mention) along with many of the basics of the Marvel film formula, Ryan Coogler has turned Black Panther into a highly personal crowd - pleaser in the vein of his last film, the Rocky sequel Creed, but with all the idiosyncrasies and intrigues afforded by its main setting, the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.

Of the politically and socially motivated standouts, The Social Network (d. David Fincher) and Black Venus (d. Abdellatif Kechiche) treated us to fictionalised accounts, vastly different in tone and aesthetic, of historical events (of which more below); while Post Mortem (d. Pablo Larrain) offered a fictional personal story set in the time of and impacted by the coup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende; and Inside Job (d. Charles Ferguson) blazed across the screen, a searing must - see documentary indictment of the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more below).

The Cars Play Set puts players in the fictional Southwest town of Radiator Springs, and lets them play with four characters from Cars and Cars 2: Lightning McQueen, Mater, Holley Shiftwell and Francesco Bernoulli.

Seven years ago we first took control of John Marston, seven years ago we first set foot in this fictional snippet of the Old West.

Set five years after the events of the original game, players take the role of former motocross champion Chuck Greene attempting to survive in the fictional metropolis of Fortune City amidst another zombie outbreak.

Wakanda [the film's setting] is a fictional country, but it's an African country, in a continent that we know, and there are trees and rivers and things that we can understand.