Sentences with phrase «of urban legend»

Although it seems more like the stuff of urban legend than impending doom, aircraft occasionally does collide with domicile.

Slenderman is something of an urban legend as well as one of the scariest enemies in the horror game genre.

It reminds me of the urban legend, which is actually false, of the Chevy Nova translating to «does not go» (no va) and hurting the car company (it actually didn't).

Earlier this year, a documentary crew dug up a landfill full of Atari game cartridges thought to be the stuff of urban legend.

A horror from the depths of urban legend, Bloody Mary spreads terror throughout Fabletown, appearing when and where she's needed to keep business interests secure.

Without spoiling too much, it's this sort of dreadful existential monotony that makes the rare occasions that the game does throw you a curveball almost the stuff of urban legend — you almost can't believe your eyes.

Explore the dark world of an urban legend and choose for the time challenge.

Want to know real estate's version of an urban legend?

The third chapter of the urban legend - based horror anthology series returns with a meaty premise: mysterious staircases are appearing around the city and it's up to a pair of sisters to figure out how to escape their psychological pull.

«Tulip Fever» was on the verge of becoming something of an urban legend before its release on September 1.

Tyler MacIntyre's Tragedy Girls is a satire of slasher movies and social media that opens with the stuff of urban legend: a teenage girl running away from a masked, trenchcoated murderer who just split open her date's face with a knife.

The television news reporter's story is the stuff of urban legend: she achieved notoriety in 1974 after shocking the world by taking her own life live on air.

The story of the film follows a mentally fragile college student named Ashley (Caitlin Gerard from «Magic Mike» and «The Social Network») who, after learning of an urban legend in which a mysterious serial killer named «Smiley» can be summoned through the Internet, must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley «s next victim.»

Truth or Dare attempts to recreate the sickly - sticky texture of urban legend, but ends up tasting like so much over-processed gloop.

This story might be one to add to the realm of urban legend: a friend of a friend was a little down on her luck with love and money.

I've become somewhat of an urban legend with my friends and peers because I always tell stories of the women I've been hooking up with.

This explains why the rolling pin treatment is something of an urban legend amongst cellulite sufferers.

Though you might think that she's some sort of urban legend or supernatural character out of a...

I think a combination of urban legend and self - protecting midwives surrounding my son's birth and death, and then later sheer intimidation at my growing practice in spite of complete lack of support from the home birth committee continued to solidify my being the outsider.

A special sort of urban legend...

This famed recipe is the king of urban legend recipes — recipes that are passed around and have an unlikely (but charming tale attached to them).

But it appears that what was going on here was not that — nor was it the hell fire and brimstone stuff of urban legend.

Though Zizmor has become something of an urban legend to Manhattanites, he chalks up his odd ubiquity to chance.

That can't be proved, of course, so every such case resides in the limbo of urban legend and ancient superstition.

«A lot of the urban legends about Pete are just not true,» Zimet brightly declared to her Democratic audience, some of whom had suffered under Savago's rule.

Online dating involves its fair share of urban legends.

She did build a sprawling house filled with architectural oddities in San Jose, one that has become a tourist spot, spawning dozens of urban legends.

«Supernatural» has come a long way from the days of chasing the spirits and monsters at the heart of the Urban Legends that so many believe in.

That's probably not to be unexpected of a screenplay from the writers of Urban Legends: Final Cut and Hellraiser: Inferno.

Be prepared for a whole new crop of urban legends to erupt based (right or wrong) on many of Muse's findings.

If you thought Free Checking was just the stuff of urban legends, or that you have to keep thousands of dollars in your account to avoid a fee, this will make you a believer: First Internet Bank offers a Free Checking account with no monthly maintenance fee and free debit card access.

- Link doesn't have much of a character in this game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda games, the devs always try to make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of development the devs created a game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths makes Miyamoto really happy

Wales Interactive previously worked on horror title Don't Knock Twice, which wove a tale of an urban legends of an old haunted house, and a vengeful spirit that can be summoned by knocking upon its door.

Eight - foot long pythons rising from the toilet to sink their fangs into the flesh of an unsuspecting toiletee is the stuff of urban legends... except that it is also the stuff of truth in places like Bangkok, Thailand.

The company has ordered a second season of Lore, an anthology show exploring the origins of urban legends and myths.

There are plenty of urban legends about today's job search.

Not exact matches

The authors — Chip is a professor at Stanford, and Dan works at Duke's corporate education program — looked at ideas from the golden rule to popular urban legends to create a checklist of what makes an idea truly memorable.

One particular boat which is really quite solid if one takes the time to study and understand what it really teaches, not what hearsay or urban legends say it teaches, is the boat of the Catholic Church... a boat that has weathered stormy seas already for almost two thousand years.

For example, how many urban legends start with «a friend of my cousin», or something similar, and are believed by many who hear it.

He stresses that the massive profitability of bars is an urban legend «unless you serve $ 12 martinis, which we don't,» he quips.

Maple & Pine Restaurant at Quirk Hotel is showing their» Virginia Spirit» by offering up a special cocktail that pays tribute to one of Richmond's urban legends, the Hollywood (Cemetery) Vampire!

If you believe the urban legend Welbeck was bought by Gazidiz for 16m in extra time of the 2014 summer window while Wenger was away refereeing a charity match at the Vatican With the Sanchez / Mkhi swap debacle fresh in the mind we can't afford to mess the Auba deal up.

Home birth midwives often become urban legends in spite of often providing excellent clinical care.

I think we mothers are hardest on ourselves, trying to live up to the urban legend of the perfect mother.

There has to be some truth to the urban legend of the mother - in - law grabbing the baby's head as soon as the baby starts crowning.

You can compare it to the Ted Williams [urban legend in baseball]-- they say he could see the stitching on the ball [of the incoming pitch] rotate, and that he would know by the rotation whether he was getting a fastball or a curveball.

The urban legend that one swallows lots of spiders during sleep in one's life has no basis in reality.

«If there has been a more harmful urban legend circulating in our society than the vaccine - autism link,» University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer, «it's hard to know what it might be.»

17 Don't buy the urban legend that Inuit cultures have hundreds of words for snow.

And so one of the great urban legends is this is what the New York City police did.