Sentences with phrase «just fictional stories»

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It chronicles the story of a fictional Gehry, an architect who throughout his life refuses to ever do anything «just to pay the bills.»

With all due respect, my studies have shown that Christianity is more than just a «belief» or a fictional story, as it is often characterized.

Research finds that when we read fictional stories, we don't just remember facts and plotlines.

It's not that the film is hard to follow, it's just that writer - director - star Ben Affleck took the «everything and the kitchen sink» approach to telling the two - hour - plus story of fictional mobster Joe Coughlin, and it didn't work.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

Where Disney Infinity delivers a series of small self - contained stories and LEGO Dimensions is just getting started, the Skylanders series has spent the past five years building an original fictional universe — and tearing it apart.

BH Tilt has just unveiled a brand new trailer for Birth of the Dragon, a fictional feature based on the true story of the legendary Bruce Lee.

By role is to point out that these movies do contain embellishments, but to also review the film as a whole as a story, just like completely fictional ones.

It's not just a coming - of - age story for these fictional sisters, but for the country as a whole, shining a spotlight on the horrors of arranged marriage and the general lack of freedom for women in the less progressive parts of Turkey.

Amazon just announced a new program called Kindle Worlds that allows writers to sign up for no - mess licenses for established fictional worlds to self - publish stories in them.

Glen Duncan, THE LAST WEREWOLF (Knopf) Just when you think you've seen it all in the fictional werewolf / vampire / witch craze, British novelist Duncan comes along with a story unlike anything else out there.

I was just reflecting back on past few months to understand where my inspiration for fictional stories are coming from.

Fran Shaff has the ability to capture the reader's attention and make her stories so real that the reader just escapes into the fictional world..

And when we do it right, that's what elevates games beyond what other fictional mediums can do — it allows us to create stories where people are immersed as active participants as opposed to just a silent audience.»

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.

In essence, the audience members would find themselves in different URLs with each new piece of the story, making the piece not just a fictional journey, but a physical one too through the spatial vastness of the Internet.

I've started writing a fictional story about this and just want some ballpark ideas.

You do have such an amazing molecule in your fictional world, defying gravity it can stay up in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years accumulating though it's one and a half times heavier than air, and, with no heat capacity to spit at, it can trap heat, or, heck you can't even get your stories to say the same thing consistently, it becomes this great thermal blanket stopping heat escaping... just how much of that blanket is holes?

Regardless of how you feel about the Ashley Madison hack, I hope that you will remember that everyone involved is a real person, not just a fictional character in a good story.

At first, the 10 laws of selling may seem very out there, unrealistic, or just plain fictional like the story they come from.