Sentences with phrase «on fictional worlds»

Francis is also a voracious reader, spending most of his free time immersed on fictional worlds.

Wanting to assert control on a fictional world when so much in our real world seems to be out of anyone's control makes a lot of sense to me.

Not exact matches

But many listeners and observers have found parallels between Amazon's fictional world and contemporary politics, and they're drawing up battle lines on Twitter.

Forty years after its first release, advertising legend Della Femina's memoir of life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s has become part of the Don Draper canon, helping guide the fictional world of the television series Mad Men.

A rivalry of this kind might be best summed up by a line from the vainglorious head of the fictional tech behemoth Hooli, on HBO's Silicon Valley: «I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do.»

In a fictional comment on real - world leftist indulgence of Muslim identity politics, Houellebecq has the Socialists ally with Ben Abbes.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

Here is a fictional example (based on real - world experiences).

According to The Independent, Redmayne is the Harry Potter author and Beasts screenwriter's choice to play Newt Scamander in a new franchise — based on a fictional Hogwarts textbook — that is described as «neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.»

By tearing down every possible stricture on fictional representations of sex, they abandoned their successors to the vicissitudes of a world where anything could be written, but nothing could really shock.

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.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

It motivated Percival Lowell's writings about canals on Mars at the turn of the last century, and it inspired Orson Welles's infamous «War of the Worlds» radio broadcast in 1938, which sent hundreds of thousands of listeners into a panic over a fictional Martian invasion they thought was real.

With the help of a fictional guide dubbed John Lubbock, modeled after a Victorian naturalist who wrote a popular book called Prehistoric Times, Mithen embarks on a vivid tour of the warming world as it emerged from the last ice age.

Because the program's architecture allows users to contribute new objects, many community members have concocted add - ons that re-create fictional worlds from sci - fi lore: the planet Tatooine from Star Wars, for instance, and the space station from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I love to bring stories to life — real stories of the guests I interview on my podcast, the life experiences I write about, and the characters I create in my fictional worlds.

It plays on the idea of coin style charm bracelets, and features the fictional coins that the wizarding world uses!

I love to bring stories to life — real stories of the guests I interview on my podcast, the life experiences I write about, and the characters I create in my fictional worlds.

Sometime before dawn, Ms. Langman realized that while she was in the fictional world of Azeroth, she was also on a date.

Wakanda may be a fictional (and Utopian) nation but its look, customs and costumes are built on a real - world foundation.

As the fictional story of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, never finer), a 1950s cult leader who mentors disturbed World War II Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix in the performance of his career), The Master doesn't flinch at taking on the business of religion.

«Black Panther» opens on a short re-telling of the history of the fictional country of Wakanda, an African nation that sealed itself off from the world upon discovering its technological advantages and was left undisturbed as the rest of the world was colonized by Western European powers.

As Dogtooth's carefully cultivated fictional world begins to unravel, the fallout accelerates too fast for anyone on screen to cope.

Sony is banking on kids not being completely sick of penguins yet, pitching «Surf's Up,» which takes a look at the unfortunately - fictional Penguin World Surfing Championship and includes the voices of Shia LaBeouf, Jon Heder, Zooey Deschanel, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Diedrich Bader, and Jane Krakowski.

Characters discuss the seemingly endless franchise of fictional Stab movies, based — at least at first — on the «real world» events we've been watching (They've gotten less concerned with reality, we learn from a character who bemoans the phony fifth movie's time - travel plot).

Dense plots can often muddy what is going on as a writer or director tries to set up a complex fictional world while also introducing characters.

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.

The fictional African land of Wakanda, which outsiders wrongly assume to be a Third World country, is the most technologically advanced nation on Earth in the Marvel comic book universe.

Even Altman's practice of shooting much of his action with two cameras can be linked to Renoir's TV - inspired use of multiple cameras in the late 1950s, while his tendency to keep these cameras moving (resulting in a prowling effect that harks back to The Long Goodbye) adds to the Renoir - like feeling that more is going on in this fictional world than one could possibly encompass.

They share a romantic moment while delivering a baby on the store's floor, and director Larry Charles (who directed Baron Cohen's previous antics as fictional characters in the real world — this one is entirely fictitious) ensures that we see their love blossom by placing the camera inside the birth canal.

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 worlds.

The idea, which Gad went in on with live action Beauty and the Beast companion Luke Evans, reportedly received a lot of buzz and even an offer from Disney before Netflix finally landed it, as the two companies continue their quests for total domination over our fictional worlds.

How might this film's setting in a fictional European location be more appealing to audiences on that side of the world?

Sword Art Online: Lost Song is planned for a 2015 release on PS3 and PS Vita, and will feature a brand new story set in the fictional virtual world.

Fans of Harry Potter and magic, rejoice: Universal Orlando is expanding its Wizarding World of Harry Potter with a new area based on the books» fictional scenes in Diagon Alley and London.

In my personal world (one that, at times, seems to take on fictional overtones), the image of Cobble's Knot provides a nice way to begin pulling at the threads of my own practice as I implement a new arts - based alternative program for seventh - and eighth - grade students.

They worked on concepts like compromise and mutual benefit when it came to creative decisions — ultimately there was a very real - world feel to what was happening in this fictional digital world.

Enjoy Part II of A Facebook Fictional Writing Caper Lesson Plan posted last month here on Education World.

The story will describe 5 scenarios and interactions with animals and real world situations which will guide the children to become involved on fictional contents associated with emotions.

Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

The timing is perfect — in the age of Dan Savage's It Gets Better (2011) and recent Supreme Court rulings on marraige equality, a book meant for young adults features a real - life gay teen couple kissing on the cover, standing in for the book's two fictional boys, ex-boyfriends hoping to share the world's longest kiss.

Therefore, she set out on her own journey, she dived head first into the world of self - publishing and republished two of her fictional stories, and became a proud self - published author also.

Cath struggles to find the balance between devoting her attention to the real world — her family, college classes, living on her own (and separate from her party - girl twin sister, Wren), an unexpected romance and finding that elusive campus cafeteria — and disappearing into the comforting, fictional world of her own stories.

Although they are fictional characters, in the real world, many continue to respond to 9/11 and the subsequent war on terror.

The title of Jonathan Galassi's novel Muse, refers to the fictional poet that the story centers on, Ida Perkins, who provides inspiration to the literary world.

On the appeal of alpha males: «I think there is a level at which [alpha males are] a fantasy that is just about being able to imagine, within the safe parameters of a fictional world and fictional relationship, that you could absolutely give up all control.

Do you have a teen on your gift list whose bookshelf holds their most prized possessions, who has crushes on fictional characters and who seems more interested in make - believe lands than the real world?

Set on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, Louise Erdrich's chilling novel, The Round House, focuses on a Native American boy's efforts to make sense of the world after a brutal crime.

I write a couple of different series — the Baba Yaga series, based on an updated version of the Russian fairy tale witch; the Veiled Magic series, about a witch - cop in a fictional world much like ours; and my new Broken Rider series, which is a spin - off from the Baba Yagas.