Sentences with phrase «of fictional women»

Human empathy is explored by Saya Woolfolk, a black, white, and Japanese American woman with the Empathics, a group of fictional women whose aim is to become one with all species, plant and animal.

The most comprehensive of these personas is the six - year - long project, Roberta Breitmore Series, in which the artist enacted what she calls a «private performance,» adopting the identity of a fictional woman named Roberta Breitmore.

The photographs in Kitchen Table follow Weems, playing the part of a fictional woman, through the course of relationships with her lover, friends, and daughter, all set at a simple kitchen table and below a single hanging lamp.

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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.

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.

He describes the actions of rational agents in a market using an analogy based on a fictional newspaper contest, in which entrants are asked to choose the six prettiest women from a hundred photographs.

6 — In addition to Greek gods sleeping with Earth women, the fictional «Nephilim» were claimed to be the offspring of «the sons of god» and Earth women in Genesis 6:4.

For women and girls all over the world, the city of Wakanda represents a fictional world in which their intelligence, alongside their fierce beauty, is an accepted norm of society.

The security and «truth» of this filiation are based on childbirth, on a potential or actual procreative relationship between a man and a woman, allowing the fictional filiation through the encounter with the other sex, alive and of the same generation.

The Friends study also found staffers doing nothing while children were waiting around, eager for something to do; park district attendance records that often appeared «inflated and fictional ``; a total lack of evaluation of programs or job descriptions to keep up with changing trends in recreation, and a severe shortage of programming for girls and women.

Still, some of Hollywood's most famous women from Kate Winslet to Helena Bonham Carter to Julia Stiles and Daisy Ridley have all played the fictional character.

They call it the Lake Wobegon Effect, named for Garrison Keelor's fictional hometown from the National Public Radio show, «where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all of the children are above average.»

In middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fields.

So without further ado, let's check out some other fabulous, fictional women whom the Austen gals might just be rubbing elbows with at their college of choice

Maybe this is my self created stereotype of European women or maybe it's too many movies, either way, fictional or not, this «European Chic» woman is a major style icon for me.

Let's look at a fictional example of a woman trying to overcome first date anxiety:

Thelma is a fictional character, but she represents a lot of older women who struggle with first date anxiety.

A child of the eighties, I grew up with two main fictional images of single women in their thirties — Bridget Jones, the miserable singleton, desperately seeking love and dissecting every aspect of her life, whilst constantly asking herself why she was still single.

Let's face it, with popular fictional TV and movie characters like Stifler's mom, Samantha from Sex and the City, and arguably the queen of them all, Mrs Robinson, older women, or cougar's as they are now fondly referred to as, have never been more popular, or sexy.

Two men who conned a woman out of 1.6 m by using a fictional character to contact her on a dating website are jailed.

Directed by Ridley Scott, G.I Jane tells the fictional story of the recruitment and training of the first woman Navy Seals.

A lonely Japanese woman (Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, is in fact, real.

While True Crimes begins with the upsetting imagery of women raped and abused within the confines of the sex club The Cage, it quickly becomes a tiresome battle of wills between Carrey and Csokas, a man playing the same game as the iconic fictional sociopath Catherine Tramell of Verhoeven's Basic Instinct.

On «The Larry Sanders Show,» the brilliant and groundbreaking HBO comedy that paid attention to the men and women behind the curtain of Sanders» fictional show, the ethics of showbiz were hilariously skewered.

It acknowledges and celebrates everything from traditional African society to African - American political debates, from the power and beauty of black women to the preservation of identity, all within the lush confines of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.

He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.

A decade ago, a character like her would've sprouted a garden of think pieces and handwringing about the long history of representation of black women as loud, no - nonsense, and mean, the fictional equivalent to the Tiffany Pollards and NeNe Leakes of the reality TV world.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, a portrait of a fictional fashion designer in the couture scene of 1955 London, indulges in similar revels, placing the film firmly in the tradition of the melodramatic women's pictures of the 1940s: it's filled with achingly vivid close - ups (Anderson also shot the film) of shining colored threads, needles piercing thick fabric, rough - edged hand - sewn labels, intricate lace patterns, and rich cloth falling in sculptural folds.

Series creator Nic Pizzolato has previously revealed that the second season of the series, set in a fictional California town, would be about «hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system.»

Carey Mulligan stars as Maud, a fictional composite of several women and experiences of...

Faced with an impending fixed marriage in his fictional African homeland of Zamunda, Akeem opts to jet across to the other side of the globe in search of a woman who'll love him not just for his fortune.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

And that is especially the case given the demand that female characters — and actual human women — be constantly likable has a way of limiting the stories we can tell about fictional women, and imposing restrictions on the opportunities and chances granted women in the real world.

Suffragette dramatizes their history through its fictional protagonist, Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a laundry woman drawn into a movement that struck the establishment of its day as dangerously radical.

In an unexpected twist, much of what's played for hyperbole in the fictional film presages what happens in «Their Finest,» during which Catrin comes into her own, like so many women of her generation.

Award: The Assassin Least Sexy Movie: 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: A LEGO Brickumentary) Best Tolkien Reference: The Martian Best Gag Involving a Hammer: Avengers: Age of Ultron Best Joke About Naming Your Fists «Cagney and Lacey»: Spy Best Celebrity Cameo: LeBron James, Trainwreck Best Imaginary Friend: Bing Bong, Inside Out Most Awkward Interplay Between Real and Fictional Theme Parks: Tomorrowland (Runner - up: Jurassic World) Best Contact Lenses: Johnny Depp, Black Mass Best Eyeglasses: Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Best Glass Eye: Christian Bale, The Big Short Best Robot: Ava (Ex Machina) Worst Robot: Chappie (Chappie) The Cameron Crowe Award for a Soundtrack in Search of a Movie: Aloha Best Aerial Stunt: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Runner - up: Spectre) Worst Oven - Cleaning Method: The Visit Worst Misuse of a Juice Bottle: Sleeping with Other People Best Movie About Journalism: Spotlight Worst Movie About Journalism: Truth The Sudden Ubiquity Award: Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Brooklyn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant); Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road; Legend; The Revenant); Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Mojave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Best Dog - boy: Jack Bright, The Good Dinosaur Worst Dog - man: Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Implicit Historical Comparison: Moving the events of The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina's Dirty War to post-9 / 11 America Best Backward - Looking Reboot: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Backward - Looking Reboot: Terminator Genisys Best Home Movies: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nicest Russian Spy: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies Trends of the Year: Women ruling comedy (Trainwreck, Spy); an overdue pushback against CGI (Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens); sneakily feminist themes in summer sequels (Magic Mike XXL, Mad Max: Fury Road); spy spoofs (Spy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, the final third of Spectre)

Directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan, «Suffragette» makes it look like because one (fictional) woman (Carey Mulligan) testified about her hardships to future Secretary of State for War Lloyd George, the suffrage movement experienced a depth - charge of commitment.

Of course, there's a woman by his side, Jane (Carmen Ejogo), a fictional composite of Baker's three real wives, who represents an uncomplicatedly dull cheerleader for the great man in the film's center rinOf course, there's a woman by his side, Jane (Carmen Ejogo), a fictional composite of Baker's three real wives, who represents an uncomplicatedly dull cheerleader for the great man in the film's center rinof Baker's three real wives, who represents an uncomplicatedly dull cheerleader for the great man in the film's center ring.

It's easy to sit back and judge fictional characters, but at no point do any of them make an obviously stupid decision, and much of the film plays out as a thriller as we root for the strong - willed young women to find a way out of captivity.

Patricia Highsmith is involved with a married woman in this fascinating fictional biography of the late writer

This movie is based on a true story, but features a mix of historical and fictional characters (research indicates there was no woman on the initial 1935 team).

Gene Evans (from The Steel Helmet) stars as the (fictional) journalistic genius who starts his own paper and introduces headlines, bylines, editorial cartoons, and the mechanized printing press and manages to raise enough money to build the pedestal for the Statue Of Liberty while fighting off the attempts of the rich woman owner of the biggest paper in town to destroy hiOf Liberty while fighting off the attempts of the rich woman owner of the biggest paper in town to destroy hiof the rich woman owner of the biggest paper in town to destroy hiof the biggest paper in town to destroy him.

Set in fictional Wessex County in south - west England in the 1870s, Thomas Vinterberg's («The Hunt») adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd chronicles the ups and downs of Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan, «Inside Llewyn Davis»), a smart, headstrong woman who is fiercely proud of her independence when it comes to choosing suitors....

The story of the fight for women's right to vote is definitely a cinematically rich one but Sarah Gavron's film focuses on the fictional character of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) instead of the real women on the dangerous frontline of the fight.

From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating position women had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional wowomen had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional woWomen — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional wowomen characters try to move through their lonely fictional worlds.

IRIS is a collective of women filmmakers founded by Kyle Ann Stokes, Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon to champion the female voice through fictional narrative film.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score was presented to: The Octopus Project for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Director: David Zellner, Screenwriters: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner)-- A lonely Japanese woman becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in a fictional film is, in fact, real.

Ruby Sparks is about a fictional woman come to life, a female - led version of all those male fantasy movies such as Weird Science; Kazan exposes the limitations of that fantasy (Dano plays a novelist whose heroine, played by Kazan, steps full - blooded into his life, whereupon he discovers that to exert total control over another human is less of a gift than a nightmare).

Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman is the fictional behind - the - scenes flick about the creators of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman.

Speaking to Popsugar Australia, the Kenyan - Mexican actress revealed that the joy of Wakanda — the fictional African nation where Black Panther is set — is that «we see women alongside men, and they're powerful in their own right, but them assuming their power in no way diminishes the males in their lives».