Sentences with phrase «in the fictional worlds of»

Bench Accounting asked candidates who they would most like to befriend in the fictional world of Westeros.

She was working long hours, and when she wasnâ $ ™ t immersed in the fictional worlds of Seattle Grace or Pope & Associates, she was with her daughters or her boyfriend.

Sometime before dawn, Ms. Langman realized that while she was in the fictional world of Azeroth, she was also on a date.

Two vastly different worlds, very different games, with one thing in common: great co-op times to be had in the fictional worlds of long ago made new again.

Also in the fictional world of Nocturnal Animals, Michael Shannon is once again explosive but with added humour, and Aaron Taylor - Johnson is just downright nasty, intimidating, and unlikable in all the right ways.

Danny gives it a whirl, only to find that he is transported into the Jack Slater movie itself, living in the fictional world of action heroes and movie clichés.

In the fictional world of superheroes, death is rarely final, to the consternation of some fans, who complain that realization diminishes the stakes.

These lineages can spread beyond games: plenty of book and film influences create imaginative patterns that are then sustained in the fictional worlds of games — from the utter dependence of Halo: Combat Evolved upon James Cameron's Aliens to the massive debt Dungeons & Dragons owes to Tolkien, Moorcock, and the other twentieth century fantasy writers.

But they were always very much experiences set in a fictional world of kart racers or repetitive scrolling roads.

The story is set in the fictional world of Umbra.

Unleashed takes place in the fictional world of Mystria.

Final Fantasy XV, set in the fictional world of Eos, is an open world action rpg.

Battle Chef Brigade takes place in the fictional world of Victusia, a place where «members of the elite Battle Chef Brigade are revered for their ability to skilfully take down monsters and transform their kills into delicious cuisine».

-- The Hong Kong - based artist and composer Samson Young will invite visitors to escape, in pairs, into a «multimedia walk» through the fair, immersed in a fictional world of sound.

However, these principles are hardly sufficient to identify the appropriate quantification of obligations even in a fictional world of otherwise characterless consumers and polluters.

Not exact matches

He's one of the most iconic fictional characters in the world.

«Black Panther» pulled off excellent world building for Wakanda, and although the movie mostly takes place in the fictional and tech - savvy African country, we wanted to see more of it once the movie ended.

These newest results boost the case of the those who argue that immersing yourself in a fictional world populated by layered, complex characters can't help but increase your understanding of how the human mind works and make your fellow humans a little less strange to you.

Previous games in the series applied the same open - world, first - person shooter formula to fictional worlds full of overblown stereotypes.

The park recreates elements from the fictional Na» vi world and seeks to immerse visitors in the planet's unique culture, food, and fauna, with the help of interactive scenery and attractions.

Forty years after its first release, advertising legend Della Femina's memoir of life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s has become part of the Don Draper canon, helping guide the fictional world of the television series Mad Men.

A rivalry of this kind might be best summed up by a line from the vainglorious head of the fictional tech behemoth Hooli, on HBO's Silicon Valley: «I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do.»

let alone the god they present, one who could have created any kind of world he wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up in a fictional work; why would god then giddily create / allow so much pain and evil?

In a fictional comment on real - world leftist indulgence of Muslim identity politics, Houellebecq has the Socialists ally with Ben Abbes.

If we cease to believe that God will rise up as of old and fight our fight, then we will reify the world's evil in the guise of fictional monsters.

The end rest is a very comforting fictional narrative you've chosen to believe, while people in some other part of the world have chosen to believe a completely different fictional narrative.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

His work would seem to support the view, in effect, that man is made for relationship with God: not that our relationship to the Creator is just some fictional result of indoctrination by another, but that our natural response to the world is that is has been «made.»

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

According to The Independent, Redmayne is the Harry Potter author and Beasts screenwriter's choice to play Newt Scamander in a new franchise — based on a fictional Hogwarts textbook — that is described as «neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.»

I am a proud member of the first camp, seeing epic and eternal themes in the books as worthy of discussion and the violence as a part of the fictional world that tells the story.

For women and girls all over the world, the city of Wakanda represents a fictional world in which their intelligence, alongside their fierce beauty, is an accepted norm of society.

In it, I tell the humorous (and fictional) story of how I sought to become the world's greatest fisherman.

Here is what Karl Barth has taught us to consider a great «saga», but one that is not fictional nor imaginary but grounded in happenings in the world and in the manner in which those happenings were seen and expressed through a long period from the earliest days of the Jewish people down to and through the specific occurrences in Palestine which are associated with Jesus Christ.

Using fictional stories about my attempt to become the world's greatest fisherman, I reveal some of the flaws in the church's attempts at world evangelism.

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

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.

The paradigmatic fictional works of the twentieth century either present accounts that make dramatic sense in themselves, but tell of events or sequences that could not occur in the world outside the storytelling; or they meticulously describe events that could occur or perhaps actually have occurred in «the real world,» but in such fashion as to display precisely their lack of dramatic coherence.

As you probably know, he came up with the idea of Newspeak in this novel Nineteen Eighty - Four with the cult slogans «War is peace», «Freedom is slavery» and «Ignorance is strength» which were used in this fictional world to manipulate public opinion.

The fictional Iron Man exoskeleton debuted in Tales of Suspense # 39 in 1963 and was conceived, designed, created, and piloted by «world's greatest engineer» Tony Stark.

It motivated Percival Lowell's writings about canals on Mars at the turn of the last century, and it inspired Orson Welles's infamous «War of the Worlds» radio broadcast in 1938, which sent hundreds of thousands of listeners into a panic over a fictional Martian invasion they thought was real.

Legend has it that in 1938, a radio broadcast about a Martian invasion of New Jersey incited panic; not everyone realized it was a fictional drama — Orson Welles» adaptation of The War of the Worlds.

In a 2001 article, U.S. News & World Report called Lanza the «living embodiment» of the fictional genius in the movie Good Will Hunting, whose Massachusetts accent is as thick as Lanza's owIn a 2001 article, U.S. News & World Report called Lanza the «living embodiment» of the fictional genius in the movie Good Will Hunting, whose Massachusetts accent is as thick as Lanza's owin the movie Good Will Hunting, whose Massachusetts accent is as thick as Lanza's own.

You can also learn about the real - world plant and animal life that inspired Avatar's fictional flora and fauna, peer inside the Armored Mobility Platform suit that was used in combat scenes, and examine the filmmakers» models of Na» vi characters and their costumes.

Cognitive neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese of the University of Parma in Italy, who is also exploring how the brain responds to works of art, finds the new link between real and fictional worlds exciting, but is skeptical of the distinction between literary and mainstream fiction.

I love to bring stories to life — real stories of the guests I interview on my podcast, the life experiences I write about, and the characters I create in my fictional worlds.

I love to bring stories to life — real stories of the guests I interview on my podcast, the life experiences I write about, and the characters I create in my fictional worlds.

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Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.