Sentences with phrase «of fictional work»

How would you describe the genre and general flavor of your fictional work?

Lots of fictional works have unique central characters.

Broadcasts of fictional works by BBC directors like Mike Leigh (Four Days in July) and Alan Clarke (Contact, about British soldiers in South Armagh «s» Bandit Country, «and Elephant, a brutally minimalist depiction of 18 sectarian shootings, one after another) were routinely denounced by right - wingers who freely admitted not having seen them, then rescheduled in the wee small hours.

Taking place on the last day of Mishima's life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works.

Of the fictional works in this list, the Frankenstein story is retold best by Blade Runner, a movie that, like Shelley's novel, never feels dated no matter when it's viewed.

Not exact matches

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.

These newest results boost the case of the those who argue that immersing yourself in a fictional world populated by layered, complex characters can't help but increase your understanding of how the human mind works and make your fellow humans a little less strange to you.

let alone the god they present, one who could have created any kind of world he wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up in a fictional work; why would god then giddily create / allow so much pain and evil?

The biblical hermeneutic of Christian Zionism distorts biblical texts by reading them out of their canonical and historical context, making them seem more like such fictional works as the «Left Behind» series than the whole Word of God.

His work would seem to support the view, in effect, that man is made for relationship with God: not that our relationship to the Creator is just some fictional result of indoctrination by another, but that our natural response to the world is that is has been «made.»

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

There are countless other examples of the bible obviously being a fictional work.

If you still believe that the bible is not fiction: It only takes one fictional account to make your book a work of fiction.

David Hall, a longtime acquaintance of Carson who said he watched the two work together, claims that Andrews supplied rough sketches from her experiences in Beverly Hills, and Carson wove them into a fictional narrative describing her exotic adventures with various shamans based on his own knowledge of Native American culture.

I would like the story better if she gave the credit of her success to her own intelligence and hard work rather than a fictional character in an ancient book.

Fictional detective Kurt Wallander breaks all the rules about work - life balance, but does he have something to teach us about the emotional cost of church... More

(ENTIRE BOOK) The fictional character of Ted Brown represents a young man who comes from a religious background, who is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life, is sensitive to spiritual values, and who seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

For the first time in quite some time I managed to pry myself away from the non fictional category, and knock out a major work of fiction, and it turned out to be one of the more influential things I read all year.

I watched an old Star Trek last night where a delusional guy believed he was working for God... it's funny when you see this sort of thing in a fictional setting but scary when some idiot believes this for real.

Sister Helen is real, but her book's protagonist, Joseph De Rocher, is the fictional composite of several death row inmates with whom the nun worked at Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary.

Fictional works may be profoundly true, provided their literal untruths are employed as vehicles for a symbolic revelation of truth.

The paradigmatic fictional works of the twentieth century either present accounts that make dramatic sense in themselves, but tell of events or sequences that could not occur in the world outside the storytelling; or they meticulously describe events that could occur or perhaps actually have occurred in «the real world,» but in such fashion as to display precisely their lack of dramatic coherence.

This publication is nothing far from fictional journalistic work cooked in a dilapidated kitchen of falsehood and deceit, and I appeal to the general public to ignore it for what it is - an obvious concoction intended to serve as stumbling block to our quest not only to retain the Domeabra - Obom seat, but deliver 90 percent of the presidential vote in aide of President Mahama's one - touch victory.

We'll ignore the ironies that Nixon is modern politics» greatest dirty trickster, that Stone worked for Nixon, and that the fulcrum of Frost / Nixon is a (fictional) bizarre late - night phone call.

Cognitive neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese of the University of Parma in Italy, who is also exploring how the brain responds to works of art, finds the new link between real and fictional worlds exciting, but is skeptical of the distinction between literary and mainstream fiction.

She was working long hours, and when she wasnâ $ ™ t immersed in the fictional worlds of Seattle Grace or Pope & Associates, she was with her daughters or her boyfriend.

Co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler, «Black Panther» is a radically different kind of comic - book movie, one with a proud Afrocentric twist, featuring a nearly all - black cast, that largely ignores the United States and focuses instead on the fictional nation of Wakanda — and guess what: Virtually everything that distinguishes «Black Panther» from past Marvel pics works to this standalone entry's advantage.

Working with Hollywood producers John Chambers (John Goodman) and Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), Mendez created an entirely fictional feature film production with the name of «Argo.»

It's not that the film is hard to follow, it's just that writer - director - star Ben Affleck took the «everything and the kitchen sink» approach to telling the two - hour - plus story of fictional mobster Joe Coughlin, and it didn't work.

Yet what the film lacks is the substance of its progenitor, the concreteness of a certain visual grammar and narrative originality The Matrix used to transform itself into a work of surprising science - fictional elegance.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

As the ruler of the fictional kingdom of Wakanda, Black Panther is doing all that he can to keep his home intact, all while a pair of enemies work together to destroy all that he loves and ultimately ignite global war.

Next is «It's Bugsy» (4 mins., HD), another one of those infuriating docs wherein the cast and crew fawn over some animal / fictional character (in this case, the bug - eyed gerbil that accounts for a good 40 % of Bedtime Stories» attempts at humour) as a big star who was great to work with.

She uses that to her advantage; creating a film that breathes with the complexity of the best «fictional» works.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

Sure, the flick is not perfect, but it does a good job of meshing real - life events and dark, literary works with the fictional narrative!

The series named for its main star, Roseanne Barr, centered around a working class American family in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.

No molds are broken and the movie plays closer to Michael Bay than James Cameron or Paul Greengrass, but there is more weight and substance to this than most of the genre's fictional works.

In honor of those hard - working (real - life) acting teachers who inspired, challenged, and motivated us all, here are 11 fictional acting teachers who we can not forget!

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

So here's the thing: If «Gold» is almost entirely fictional, why did Matthew McConaughey feel the need to do elaborate character work and, in the process, make a grotesque spectacle of himself?

From the day I heard this, I believed this to be a given in any fictional work of perceived quality of greatness.

The film's largely nonsensical plot involves fictional movie stars (played by Julianne Moore and Evan Bird), ambitious wannabes (Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson), and John Cusack as some sort of literal massage therapist who has his clients work through their past trauma while he works their glutes.

You're still exploring a troubled place - a fictional American midwestern rural community under the thumb of a doomsday cult called Eden's Gate - and working with the locals to fight back and build a resistance in Far Cry 5.

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.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

The Italian filmmaker relied on borrowed works from modern classical composer John Adams to determine the ebbing dramatic tension of 2009's I Am Love, while 2015's A Bigger Splash, which centers on the relationship between a fictional rock singer and her mercurial former lover and record producer, climaxes with an electric, lip - syncing performance of the Rolling Stones's «Emotional Rescue.»

A graduate of Yale with more connections than capital, Carraway comes to New York in 1922 to work in the bond market and ends up by chance living in a humble cottage next door to Gatsby's huge baronial establishment in fictional West Egg, the nouveau riche enclave on Long Island.

Levels are bite - sized chunks of the fictional town of Arkham, which often appeared in Lovecraft's work, mixed with a few realistic elements, such as Tesla's Wardenclyffe facility.