Sentences with phrase «life in fictional worlds»

While virtual reality has only been a thing — at least in name — since the 1980s, people have been dreaming of life in fictional worlds for thousands of years.

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.

These characters live in the fictional world in which most of my work is set.

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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.»

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.

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.

You know you're living in a strange world when people would rather live in a fictional one rather than the real world.

The entertainment world has a particular fascination with bringing to life creatures both factual and fictional, and this involves more than just mechanical engineering as it's taught in university.

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.

Kidd and his adviser, social psychologist Emanuele Castano, suspected that the skills we use to navigate these ambiguous fictional worlds serve us well in real life.

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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He started out in 1963 by producing a fictional feature film, The Cool World, an examination of the lives of Harlem teenagers.

The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

This isn't just a fictional conceit; we live in a world where the rich and powerful use the media to keep the poor and underclass at each others» throats, divided by false racial lines or cultural boundaries.

Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori, who lived during the time of the story of THE WIND RISES to create Jiro, a fictional character at the center of an epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world

The idea, which Gad went in on with live action Beauty and the Beast companion Luke Evans, reportedly received a lot of buzz and even an offer from Disney before Netflix finally landed it, as the two companies continue their quests for total domination over our fictional worlds.

Denzel Washington is one of the film world's most prominent leading men, known best for his galvanizing portrayals of both real - life figures (Malcolm X, The Hurricane, American Gangster) and fictional characters (Philadelphia, Devil in a Blue Dress, Flight).

The timing is perfect — in the age of Dan Savage's It Gets Better (2011) and recent Supreme Court rulings on marraige equality, a book meant for young adults features a real - life gay teen couple kissing on the cover, standing in for the book's two fictional boys, ex-boyfriends hoping to share the world's longest kiss.

Phileas Fogg was fictional and his adventures were fun, but Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland live in a real world the reader has the pleasure of visiting (Barbara H).

As a writer, I'm in total control of my work and the fictional world in which my characters live.

Considering normal life mundane, Tony prefers to spend most of his time absorbed in fictional worlds that stimulate his imagination.

In the case of Disco Angola the artist assumes the persona of a fictional photo - journalist living in the mid 1970s and documenting two very different worlds: the nascent disco underground in New York and the civil war in newly independent AngolIn the case of Disco Angola the artist assumes the persona of a fictional photo - journalist living in the mid 1970s and documenting two very different worlds: the nascent disco underground in New York and the civil war in newly independent Angolin the mid 1970s and documenting two very different worlds: the nascent disco underground in New York and the civil war in newly independent Angolin New York and the civil war in newly independent Angolin newly independent Angola.

A narrative around the emotional life of the artist is enacted through fictional characters, producing an in - between world filled with both humour and pathos.

The book will also include a fictional short story, «Lives of the Artists,» by the award - winning writer Frederic Tuten, author of Tintin in the New World and Van Gogh's Bad Café.

In 2014, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset transformed the Victoria & Albert Museum's former Textile Galleries into a life - size diorama — suddenly, museum visitors would find themselves in the stately, quaint, neoclassical Old - World apartment of one Mr. Norman Swann, a «fictional, elderly,... Read MoIn 2014, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset transformed the Victoria & Albert Museum's former Textile Galleries into a life - size diorama — suddenly, museum visitors would find themselves in the stately, quaint, neoclassical Old - World apartment of one Mr. Norman Swann, a «fictional, elderly,... Read Moin the stately, quaint, neoclassical Old - World apartment of one Mr. Norman Swann, a «fictional, elderly,... Read More

The provocative Belgian / American artist, who lives in London, made a big splash this summer at Art Basel with Amos's World: Episode 1, a video installation about a fictional architect.

Based between Guangzhou and New York City, she has hosted high school debates on contemporary art world issues, made fictional App to create space to talk about gender issues, organized meetings between scientist, artists and philosophers to address the possibility that we live in a simulation, and organize fictional panel taken place in the future.

Robert Taplin: Selections from the Punch Series, 2005 - 10 The fictional character Punch and his misadventures in the contemporary art world are the subject of an ongoing project, displayed in the galleries and, larger than life, on Main Street.

The fictional character Punch and his misadventures in the contemporary world are the subject of Robert Taplin's ongoing series of works, one of which will make its larger - than - life debut on The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's front lawn this Halloween

And because in their fictional AGW scare they have to turn children against carbon dioxide, the have also demonised carbon dioxide as a toxic, a poison, they have taken Life out of our world.

But the great difference is they have, through the education process, convinced not only the general population, but scientists, that this alternative fictional world is the one we live in..

And then get them to not only bring back into their fictional energy budget, KT97 and ilk, the Water Cycle, but to bring back the thermal infrared heat on the move from the Sun as the real world direct heat source for land and oceans, and, to give back to shortwave which they claim does this in place of thermal energy direct from the Sun, its real properties and properties, its chemical energy cycle, that store which slow releases heat back into the greenhouse atmosphere by recycling Life.

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.

That is, they score higher on questions like, «It is important for me to write, create, or build something that will exist after my death;» insecure people do not show this tendency.6 In the fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existencIn the fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existencin our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existence.