Sentences with phrase «of fictional people»

Seventeen free - verse poems represent the points of view of fictional people traveling in a wagon train from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City in 1848.

In a series of controlled experiments, we asked participants, mostly average Americans in their 30s and 40s, to read about and evaluate the actions of fictional people who behaved in either a moral or immoral way.

Luke Evans returns as Bard the Bowman, as do a boatload of other actors — Orlando Bloom, Ken Stott, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, and Ryan Gage, who spends his many (many) scenes as a comically sniveling human daring children to call for the death of a fictional person.

The pair, who are arguably most famous for their inception of fictional person, Darko Maver, a Serbian artist who made very realistic replications of brutal murder scenes and posted them on social media to get attention (as the story goes), will make all new work for this coming exhibition.

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

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

Previous games in the series applied the same open - world, first - person shooter formula to fictional worlds full of overblown stereotypes.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

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.

A lot of people talk about persona development, but tend to mean fictional characters that portray an ideal customer.

So does Harry Potter, so does Iron Man, and many other fictional stories, but their use of real events or people does not make them accurate.

In fact I bet you're one of those hypocrite teabagger trolls who are happy to have the government pave their roads, provide public schools for their kids, provide a mortgage credit, etc. then whine about all those fictional people getting so much for free.

The end rest is a very comforting fictional narrative you've chosen to believe, while people in some other part of the world have chosen to believe a completely different fictional narrative.

A short description of all religions: A fictional narrative intended to help people avoid dealing with some of the harsh realities of life and encourage them to be better citizens and members of the society in which they live.

This story about the fictional Scott family might give the impression that this «method» will increase the numbers of people in our churches.

@Chad «no serious scholar buys into that nonsense: The Christ myth theory (also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.

Though it may sound bizarre, engaging with fictional characters on a deep emotional level can be a sort of thought experiment in empathy, where we briefly step outside of our self - constructed glass boxes and engage with people who are both vastly different and the same on an intimate level.

would get them criticized and yelled at by people and would get no approval by fictional heroes like batman, I'd say that for all of God's omni - benelovence and infinite love, God could really come of like an antihero, especially in the old testament.

LOLOL... I love the way you people argue over this fictional crap as it it were a real reality... like arguing over the color of Santa's suit and how many reindeer he had and oh yeah... how did they fly... with tiny tiny wings that were invisible?

In 1960, only about 10 percent of people in his fictional Fishtown were problematic.

peace I know EXACTLY who christ is... He is a fictional character in a book of myths, written to control people who were not allowed to be part of the religion of the people who wrote it.

Why is it so easy for people to regard thousands of other Gods as fictional man made things (like Odin, Zeus, Horace...), but not even accept the possibility that theirs is also?

«Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

The Bible is nothing more than a fictional piece of literature used to control people and to justify one's particular prejudice.

Well, sorry to say but with the exception of 1 % of the population that are true atheists people know there is a difference between Fictional stories and the truth expressed by Christ.

Religion is a bunch of fictional nonsense for weak - minded people.

Here is what Karl Barth has taught us to consider a great «saga», but one that is not fictional nor imaginary but grounded in happenings in the world and in the manner in which those happenings were seen and expressed through a long period from the earliest days of the Jewish people down to and through the specific occurrences in Palestine which are associated with Jesus Christ.

This fictional book was about a discussion between two people on the helio - vs. geocentric issue challenging people of that day.

And when a person truly believes in something that is fictional, that is a sign of mental problems.

I think before one gets into the whats and whys of what this fictional Jesus said... one should find empirical proof of this persons existences... which has never been done... there is NO proof what so ever in 1600 years... the bible is not proof.

jc There are tons of beings that people consider fictional or mythical, and thousands of gods too.

the fictional character of jesus heals a lot of people by laying hands on them - leppers, blind, diseased, sick, etc. he also «exorcises» demons from people with his magic touch.

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

The bible is a book of made up fictional stories, it's seems hard to believe that a 1000 years later it is still referred to as law by so many ignorant people.

The fact that Harry does not understand the meaning of the epitaph, not to mention its provenance, is an entirely legitimate fictional device on the part of an author who understands the need of young people not to be spoon - fed the truth, but rather to puzzle it out for themselves.

The Padres, like those fictional Indians, would make life much simpler for a lot of powerful people if they just lost, as they were so widely projected to do.

There are some people that think of Facebook as just a fictional place on the web.

Halali was also a real person, and his story is skillfully interwoven with that of the fictional Younes.

With fictional characters you may include a smattering of personality from different people, well - known or not, to create a monster or a flawed hero; a misguided disciple or ruthless advisor.

For some people, adjusting to a new culture is a minor inconvenience, soon overcome; for others, like the fictional Harris, the experience can become a source of profound psychological distress.

These fictional mafiosi looked like real people, capable of fear, anger, and sadism.

Now artificial intelligence is poised to lend photographic fakery a new level of sophistication, thanks to artificial neural networks whose algorithms can analyze millions of pictures of real people and places — and use them to create convincing fictional ones.

Retraction Watch (RW): You tell the book from the point of a view of a fictional first - person narrator, a sleep researcher in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

I've covered quite a few books on my blog over the past year or two, all of them being related to ethical fashion on varying levels, however, I've never read or reviewed a fictional book until I discovered A Harvest of Thorns and realised that fiction could be another way to help people understand and come to terms with fast - fashion.

People with herpes or the survivor of brain herpes can no longer identify whether a drawing made is of a real animal or fictional Hybrid beast.

Elphaba Thropp / ˈ ɛ l f ə b ə ˈ θ r ɒ p / is a fictional character in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Fixed at the pillory people feel up Grete immorally and furthermore pelt her with unsound fruits... torture photo gallery from Inquisition World porn website

Most singles are swiping — looking at people's profile pictures to determine, in about a nanosecond, whether they would like to message them, meet them It's so notoriously difficult to get into the League, the Harvard of dating apps, that fictional characters complain about it on television.

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

But rather than get an answer to this riddle, you'll be even more dumbfounded, because the fictional billionaire in Miguel Arteta's film from Mike White's screenplay is your basic narcissist who might be on the wavelength of people in his 0.1 % circle of Americans but could hardly win the vote of the down - and - out.

While Brashear is based on a real - life person and Sunday is a fictional character (a composite of various embodied obstacles in Brashear's Navy career), in George (Soul Food) Tillman Jr.'s film, they come together in a neatly choreographed dance of righteous nobility in the face of ignorance and fear.