Sentences with phrase «of fiction and reality»

Stein's writing, considered both repetitive and illogical, stretched the medium of fiction and reality, time and place.

Jennyfer Haddad mixes the boundaries of fiction and reality while she often takes the role of the silent narrator, the observer and the operator who stages situations, investigating the story behind it.

«I work in the intersection of fiction and reality using photography as my starting point.

Franchy's «Vertical Horizons» de-categorizes understandings, establishes new definitions and propels the imagination and fantasies of the audience to invent new narratives and new meanings at the intersection of fiction and reality.

Her characters are an invented hybrid of fiction and reality.

Jugdeo's work, like many of those presented in An Ocean, evokes another boundary — the imaginary line between the staged work of fiction and the reality of the audience, known in theater as the fourth wall.

With an affection for utopian novels like Sir Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis and Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Rivers's work blends aspects of fiction and reality in a subversive and poetic manner.

Viewers are invited to enter the greenhouse sculpture and inspect the plants up close while immersed in a fantastical landscape of fiction and reality.

These stories - within - a-story play with ideas of the unreliable narrator, as well as the blurring of fiction and reality.

It feels like a fascinating and untrustworthy (but not malicious) fusing of fiction and reality in the way a film like, say, Forest Gump does with its mashing of Tom Hanks into historical television footage.

This blending of fiction and reality is jarring on occasion, oddly devising overtly theatrical instances along the way that just seem implausible.

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One of those techniques is the «fusion of fiction and reality», highlighting the fact that the most expensive loot boxes in FIFA 18 are advertised with a picture of Cristiano Ronaldo, suggesting that the more you pay the greater your chance is of picking up Ron.

In a bizarre melding of fiction and reality, Murphy Brown (the character) hit back on the show.

One way we can do that is this fun little blurring of fiction and reality.

Something I find really interesting right now that's not new, but is happening more and more, is the blurring of fiction and reality in how brands are engaging with consumers.

Not exact matches

When it comes to technology and innovation, reality seems to be constantly playing catch - up to the visions of the world that are painted in science fiction narratives.

Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

While there are the science fiction - driven angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world of online retail.

The U.S. presidential election, starring Donald Trump and a growing cast of antagonists, is now officially stranger than fiction, and more estranged from reality than the most implausible reality TV plot.

When, we tend to use the word «fiction», we are pulling ourselves away from the actual ground of reality and pushing ourselves closer to the non-realistic world of imaginations.

Fiction could be combined with reality and imaginations where as life of Last Prophet Muhammad is TRULY based on realistic facts and no Muslim would deny that, no matter if he / she is practicing Muslim or non-practicing Muslim.

But his less - known work, a trilogy of science fiction novels, contains some of his most profound, thrilling and decidedly adult notions of the universe we live in, the reality - shifting nature of grace and the Creator who rules over it all.

Many of today's most popular films, fiction, and television shows deal with superhuman powers, supernatural realities, and spiritual themes.

«Hunger, poverty, poor health, fear, violence and lack of freedoms are not just elements of fiction, but daily realities in our world.

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.

His best - selling books The Power of the Dog and The Cartel may be works of fiction, but they are based on a horrifying reality: Cartels will do anything to grow, produce and sell drugs to Americans.

No longer in contact with the created world or with himself, out of touch with the reality of nature, he lives in the world of collective obsessions, the world of systems and fictions with which modern man has surrounded himself.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

Morrisey thus provides a great example of exactly what the media has done to public discourse: It has blurred the lines between reality and fiction in the service of remaking social and sexual ethics, and it has helped to trivialize the language of relationship in a profoundly significant manner.

They are neither literal pictures of reality nor «useful fictions», but partial and provisional ways of imagining what is not observable; they are symbolic representation of aspects of the world which are not directly accessible to us.

But lest the Christian theologian dismiss too quickly the insight into both life's reality and the divine reality which Updike's fiction offers, or lest one wrongly conclude that Updike has totally forsaken his Protestant heritage, let me suggest a biblical parallel to the writings of Updike, one he himself makes repeated use of in his works.

They are neither pictures of reality nor useful fictions; they are partial and inadequate ways of imagining what is not observable.

The futuristic scenarios in technological communication which once were the stuff of science fiction are rapidly becoming present realities, and the broadcasters are just as quickly adapting them to their purposes.

The reality of Italian politics is far wilder and stranger than fiction would ever dare.

Politicians in fiction» - and in reality of course.

According to him, the chief has the wisdom to decipher between fiction and reality, and to propagate the good works of the President to his followers.

In the reality of 2004 — and not the fiction of 1984 — that may be the most important privacy battle of all.

Teleportation, the science - fiction fantasy of moving objects instantaneously through space from one location to another, has become reality — an achievement both more subtle and spectacular than many early news reports indicated.

It's the stuff of science fiction: robots that can hunt down and kill humans, powerful lasers that can destroy targets without leaving a trace, and a weapon that can supposedly knock you down without even touching you — all of these, and more, came one step closer to reality in 2008.

IT IS not every day that a piece of science fiction takes a step closer to nuts - and - bolts reality.

The answer is they all wrote stories that involved a journey to the Moon, one of the oldest and most popular themes of the science fiction genre until 25 years ago, when it was crushed by the weight of reality and Neil Armstrong's foot.

Such claims are an obfuscating amalgam of theory and conjecture, reality and fantasy, nonfiction and science fiction.

This is fiction that challenges, that takes risks, that dares to bring dollops of strangeness into an ostensibly everyday narrative, that forces the reader to re-evaluate his or her perception of «reality», to question values and beliefs whether scientific, religious, philosophical, psychological, sociological or whatever.

For years, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)-- a view of the real world that has been «augmented» by layers of computer - generated content — have been the stuff of science fiction.

Gosling and co-stars Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella don't do anything wrong here but the movie is such a mash - up of tones, fiction, and reality that it never comes together into anything coherent.

Perhaps one of the reasons why it has taken a science fiction film to speak so directly and truly about South Africa — and South African reality to make SF seem so real.

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A playful, though not strikingly original, engagement of the unreliable narrator, and a fluffy study of the contrast between wish - fulfilling fiction and cold, hard reality.

Still, «True Story» is a tightly made slice of true crime that treads the line between fact and fiction that has so bedeviled storytellers, and asserts that perhaps reality lies somewhere outside of that, and is still only what you make of it.