Sentences with phrase «not about fiction»

That does NOT make her credible because this is not about fiction.

The story isn't about fictions — about vampires, teenage witch, or such things alike; it is more about family and the everyday life that we face.

Not exact matches

General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Fiat - Chrysler, BMW, and just about every other auto company are wading — some cautiously and some with big, headline - grabbing moves — into territory that executives in Detroit and elsewhere not long ago considered a science - fiction fantasy.

I just read about their history and can't believe anyone would fall for that crap... In fact if you took away the Racism, Child Molestation, Treason, Blasphemy, Archeological Fiction... It was just be Christanity LOL

Theo Of course we all knew that Dan Brown was a writer of fiction, now about your proof that Saul of Tarsus was not; we are waiting.

There are books of fiction which, by definition, are not literally true but which contain truths about life.

Thus, metaphors and models of God are understood to be discovered as well as created, to relate to God's reality not in the sense of being literally in correspondence with it, but as versions or hypotheses of it that the community (in this case, the church) accepts as relatively adequate.16 Hence, models of God are not simply heuristic fictions; the critical realist does not accept the Feuerbachian critique that language about God is nothing but human projection.

The other thing about that kind of fiction is that if you don't have an altar call at the end, people think it has failed.

Arguing about fiction or nonfiction is unrelavent cause you won't change my mind and I won't change your mind.

which has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

This would not be about personal «spiritual belief system» but about fact or fiction.

Hermeneutics is about biblical interpretation, I get that, but in order for this interpretation to have any meaning, you have to believe that the bible is based in fact and not fiction, so what do you believe is fact?

I think they ought to read more fiction and forget about uplift, but I'm not them.

In light of 1 Corinthians 15:1,2, and 11, I can't understand how you can say: «others... had heard about the resurrection, but denied it as fiction.

Oscar - winning films like the abuse - survival tale Precious, the 2016 Best Picture winner Room, about a kidnapping victim, may not be straight - ahead biopics, but both stories were pulled from the headlines and spun into fiction.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Hands up this is fiction, it is what I feel has the strongest chance due to the events all us Arsenal fans have witnessed over the years, Wenger isn't open about his transfers and as such surprised tend to happen.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.

You see where this is going, and it's not like I'm going to write science fiction about how the 2018 Nationals become the worst team in the league.

My college friend Meg, an experienced mom and author of The Rug Merchant (link provided for those who are looking to read quality fiction that is not about babies), emailed me to ask for tips on replicating this activity for her sister's shower.

The cliche about New Labour «control freakery» was not a fiction.

If your goal is to persuade and be believed about the truth of a particular point, then what would possess you to choose to work in a genre whose very name, fiction, explicitly warns the reader not to believe a word she reads?

By presenting science in a fun, exciting way, Star Trek and science fiction books can ignite interest in children who would otherwise not care about science.

SF is not fiction about science; some of the best SF writers — Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison — have no detectable interest in the subject.

For more insider info about Tron, read the extended version of this interview on Discover's Science Not Fiction blog.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

It isn't science fiction; it's fiction about science.

Guillem Anglada - Escude, is a Queen Mary University of London astronomer and lead the group that discovered Proxima b. Anglada - Escude is not shy about his love of science fiction and its influence on his own astronomical exploration.

While this is massively cool science fiction stuff, it's also difficult to observe since the ergosphere is typically about the size of the event horizon and thus doesn't affect the behavior of distant objects all that much.

We could think of them in science fiction but we couldn't think about them in science reality.

Shelby has not been shy about expressing his lack of enthusiasm for the commercial crew program, today calling privately funded vehicles a «fiction» that diverts funding from NASA developing human spaceflight capabilities with SLS.

The Keto Edge Summit will teach you about ketosis (and how it works), common myths (and how to separate fact from fiction), how to overcome being «keto adapted,» whether you should start a keto diet (or not), how to shop, live and eat on a ketogenic lifestyle and more.

I bet you will shock your doctor when you correct them about energy and that «calories» are not stuff, just some unit we use to measure an invented mathematical fiction, some useful.

And iconic Hollywood movies like: Clueless, Pulp Fiction, Notting Hill, Titanic, Forrest Gump, 10 Things I Hate About You and The Shawshank Redemption.

The historical fiction that I read is typically set in Tudor England, but I am super excited about delving into All the Light We Can not See «s World War II France.

But because I am a woman vocal about my sexuality, and the benefits of open sexual dialog — either because I do write erotic fiction or do participate in «adult» online communities — apparently not just my words are to be treated as masturbatory material — I am as well.

It's a science fiction film that gives you a lot of plot to chew on and some genuine moral dilemmas — about sacrifice, guilt, heinous crimes to protect the greater good and what not.

To be clear, nobody promised me anything; still, expectations were raised — by Garland's encouraging directorial debut, 2014's Ex Machina, a nearly baked speculative fiction about the responsible rearing of robots, and by VanderMeer's reputation (highly regarded, though I admit I haven't the read the books).

While I have no doubt that he believes this fiction (in spirit if not particulars, perhaps), Brashear's story — even in its big - screen dilution — is so manifestly about long - term, institutionalized racism, that such a comment appears patently naive, even disingenuous (the movie even makes the case, somewhat ironically, that the Navy's greatness is proved by the fact that someone so exceptional as Brashear would want to be part of it).

What initially seems hard to watch, even excruciating at times, becomes hard not to, a fascinating fiction that seems to be more real than just about any actual documentary you can imagine.

The filmmakers have described «Band of Robbers» as fan fiction, and that feels about right: They don't quite hit the mark, but it's fun to watch them trying.

There's something about the spectacle of movies like «King Kong» and «Godzilla» that's singularly cinematic — it's not something that other forms like theatre, TV, or fiction can do in quite the same way.

It doesn't hurt that Blomkamp is about to setup shop over at Fox for Alien 5, a move like this could mean even more science fiction coming from Fox in the future.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

The crafty way the storytelling keeps us guessing about everything — not only events and outcomes, but motives and concealed feelings — suggests that realism is as much a construction as any other sort of fiction.

Comparing it to poetry seems absurd — after this, this is about a man who uses science fiction technology to «relive» the antics of his assassin ancestor 500 years earlier — but this isn't your regular action movie.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

He separates fact from fiction and also shows you a few things you may not have known about them.

It's difficult to think of a modern documentary as complex and well put together — not to mention as morally confounding — as Cartel Land, a documentary whose «facts» are stranger, and more compelling, than most fictions about the drug wars.