Sentences with phrase «of urban legends»

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

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

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.

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).

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.

Online dating involves its fair share of urban legends.

That's the convenient aspect of making an intelligence agency that depends on secrecy a central part of an urban legend: Of course there wouldn't be any evidence.

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

In this case, it's a matter of urban legend.

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

The exhibition will incorporate a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and video, in order to capture the essence of each urban legend.

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

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

The film possesses the folklorish simplicity of an urban legend, with the added spice of a smartly deployed STD metaphor.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.»

Writer / director Franck Khalfoun plays with the prevalence of this urban legend that became, in its own right, a minor pop - culture phenomenon.

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.

One (Rachael Bella) tells the other (Amber Tamblyn) of this urban legend going around about an unusual videocassette which brings death to everyone who watches it seven days after their viewing.

While the veracity of that urban legend is debatable, the spirit of it — and recognition of the impact Dragon Quest has had on so many lives — is captured perfectly in the video above.

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

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.

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

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.

Well, someone went ahead and actually made a Polybius game, invoking the name of the urban legend to brand their arcade shooter.

With more than 40 years of history behind it, it's not surprising the video game community has developed its own catalog of urban legends that have been passed from player to player over the years.

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.

The videogame tells the story of an urban legend about a terrifying witch who seek out those who knock twice on an old, abandoned twice.

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

The piece attracted many people who were not art - world regulars and became a kind of urban legend, even receiving a notorious homage on an episode of «Sex and the City.»

Although a mystery and a bit of urban legend, what is true is that Idaho has some of the lowest auto insurance premiums in the nation.

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

There is a story among law trainees — probably apocryphal and now nearing the status of urban legend — about how one candidate put their interest in fencing on their CV only to be quizzed on the use of the foil, epee and sabre by their interviewer, who happened to be a keen fencer.

The film, written by Gary Spinelli, takes the man, as well as the basic layout of his activities, and loads it with the stuff of urban legend.

A special sort of urban legend...

is 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.

And that's essentially it, plotwise: Like Candyman and The Ring — both clear influences — It Follows possesses the folklorish simplicity of an urban legend, with the added spice of an unsubtle but smartly deployed STD metaphor.

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

The whereabouts of this footage has become the stuff of urban legend: locked in a vault, destroyed, squirrelled away for safe keeping by protective colleagues, thrown into the ocean.

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.

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.

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.

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.