Sentences with phrase «of fictional beings»

This multi-tude of fictional beings shows the silliness of the argument.

Also on at Vilma Gold running for the same period will be an exhibition of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lynn Turning into Roberta, referencing the time the artist spent four years in the mid 1970s moving her physical persona and her life's traces into that of another fictional being constructed and called Roberta Breitmore.

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To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

For its part, the Crock - Pot brand has gently pushed back against the fictional narrative of This Is Us, with representatives of the company issuing a statement to The Washington Post.

When you work in the communications or technology industry, it's hard not to be connected to the hit HBO series Silicon Valley, which is about the growth of a fictional data - compression startup called Pied Piper.

He has rarely taken formal action on the very regular publication of fictional stories that are written about him and he has worked hard to develop a professional relationship with the media, focused on his work and the issues he cares about.

Set in a fictional ad agency in New York City, the show is almost a time capsule of a lost way of life.

Netflix description: «This fictional drama series is loosely inspired by an investigation of alleged corruption in private and state oil and construction companies in Brazil.»

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

The study, published today in the journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, found most of the fictional patients (71 %) were transferred from emergency directly to the operating theatre.

But they also noted that it was difficult to know how much credence lay people placed on fictional portrayals of medical care.

Using Amazon Mechanical Turks, the research team tested out a variety of fictional bragging scenarios, such as touting your skills and being proven right, being modest and then excelling, or overselling your actual performance, etc..

It's a point of view that's gaining traction: The fictional Gregory is said to be based on billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a vocal critic of higher education.

We were debating about three aspects of our fictional business, namely speed, quality and cost.

This led to the «Lake Woebegone» effect; like the children of Garrison Keillor's fictional town, all CEOs were above average.

«The Interview,» the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell - out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

Explanation: Disney's «Aladdin» is set in the fictional city of Agrabah near the Jordan River in the Middle East.

Black Panther is the first standalone film to focus on the titular character, the superhero alias of King T'Challa of the fictional country Wakanda, portrayed by actor Chadwick Boseman.

Other people initially listed as founders of the project were apparently fictional.

Ron Burgundy may be the greatest (fictional) broadcast news anchor who ever lived, but now, ahead of the December release of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, he's the latest pitchman for Chrysler's Dodge Durango.

The book, which is a quick read, follows the trials and tribulations of a fictional website designer named Steve who's struggling to make a healthy living as a freelancer.

The real - life and fictional lives of entrepreneurs have been the subjects of major Hollywood movies for decades.

This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage» horror movies, about a fictional documentary crew shooting a film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.

Still, our only women presidents (among them, Selina Meyer of Veep, Laura Roslin of Battlestar Galactica, Allison Taylor of 24, and Mackenzie Allen of Commander in Chief) have been fictional — like Wonder Woman and Betty Boop before them.

The DGSE hiring target is 500 - 600 recruits a year to bring its numbers up to 7,100 by 2019, but the skills required are not those of amphibious frogmen or secret agents of the kind incarnated by the fictional British character James Bond.

The movie, which focuses on the titular superhero who is king of the fictional African country of Wakanda, is forecasted to pull in as much as $ 165 million in domestic box - office gross for its debut over the four - day President's Day holiday weekend.

Throughout most of history, there's been a symbiotic relationship between fictional story - tellers and creators — thanks to fiction's capacity to spark imagination and those with technical knowledge to help realize its vision.

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

Movie Budgets «Courage under Fire»: $ 46m «Saving Private Ryan»: $ 70m «Titan AE»: $ 75m «Syriana»: $ 50m «Green Zone»: $ 100m «Elysium»: $ 115m «Interstellar»: $ 165m «The Martian»: $ 108m TOTAL: $ 729m Fictional Costs of Saving Matt Damon (costs are in 2015 currency) «Courage Under Fire» (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $ 300k «Saving Private Ryan» (WW2 Europe search party): $ 100k «Titan AE» (Earth evacuation spaceship): $ 200B «Syriana» (Middle East private security return flight): $ 50k «Green Zone» (US Army transport from Middle East): $ 50k «Elysium» (Space station security deployment and damages): $ 100m «Interstellar» (Interstellar spaceship): $ 500B «The Martian» (Mars mission): $ 200B TOTAL: $ 900B plus change

That kind of networking is probably the second-most important impact on the fictional agency's success.

Expect more brews in the future from what the trio is calling the Hanson Brothers Beer Company (not to be confused with the fictional Hanson Brothers of Slapshot fame).

The people who claimed responsibility for the hack have said on Internet postings that they were incensed by the Sony Pictures film «The Interview,» a comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

He was the inventor of successful products like bifocal glasses, the lightning rod and the Franklin stove (among others) as well as a media magnate where he published several newspapers and his popular Poor Richard's Almanac, in which Franklin used a fictional character to share his own views on topics like politics and philosophy.

(Bartlett is better known today as the fictional forefather of Martin Sheen's character in the television show «The West Wing.»)

The kingpin of a fictional drug enterprise may not be your typical business role model, but Breaking Bad's Walter White can teach you a thing or two about what it takes to build an empire, including when not to delegate important tasks.

The nickname came from a fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, «The Day of the Jackal,» which was turned into a popular film.

Icahn on Tuesday referred to Fujifilm as a «supposed «partner» whose conduct over the last year is more unbelievable than what you see on fictional TV shows like House of Cards or Billions,» referring to popular television series about Machiavellian intrigue in the corridors of political power.

But the negative remarks were followed by an outpouring of support for the fictional family made up of a black dad, white mom and their young daughter.

At the same time, without all of the science - fictional trappings of years past to impress and distract, it's never been more obvious: Facebook needs you, because without your relationships, there's no Facebook at all.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

Imagine you were the CEO of our fictional company, Blue Sky Holding Company, Inc..

It was analytically inadequate, making an analogy between Portnoy, a fictional fetishist and pervert, and Weinstein, a real - life sociopath, a comparison that had the effect of underplaying Weinstein's crimes and diminishing real women's suffering.

Buyer personas (sometimes referred to as marketing personas) are fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers.

The World Trade Francs is a fictional «stablecoin» invented by Buterin, most likely to poke fun at the idea of creating a cryptocurrency that isn't subject to the extreme volatility that cryptocurrencies have become associated with.

Personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers.

George Orwell's famous novel «1984,» is a masterful fictional account of a state which imposes cognitive dissonance on its citizens to control their... [Read More]

Like the fictional Mr. Stark, Mr. Musk seems like the kind of guy every Silicon Valley hopeful wants to be.

Buyer personas are fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customer, which help you to better understand your target audience.

(The new moniker was an amalgam of a nonsense word Markoe and Letterman would say to each other — «melman» — coupled with a nod to one of the Watergate conspirators, Egil «Bud» Krogh Jr.) From the debut, DeForest became one of the show's leading lights of absurdity, a seemingly clueless every - schlub stumbling his way through new - product parodies («Toast on a Stick») or plugging the fictional «Melman Bus Lines.»