Sentences with phrase «other than fiction»

I never believed in Santa and he was never discussed as anything other than fiction in our house.

To call it anything other than fiction would be grossly misleading.

Not exact matches

Though some shelves contain stacks of books, others have printed aluminum plates that mimic books — a feature that has prompted criticism that the much - touted space is «more fiction than books.»

In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.

Therefore, it would be foolish to conclude the bible is anything other than a work of fiction.

Other than that, it is the biggest book of fiction out there.

Because science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other than a work of fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

I am assuming you are an adult and most adults don't believe in magic, so why would you think that actually happened when there is no evidence that it happened other than a book that is equally old, has been revised many times and is filled with fiction.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

I just did not believe any of what I read or had read to me anymore than I believed any other book of fiction with so many metaphors, parables and supernatural BS.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.

The thing with science fiction that's different than other genres is that it's always about the idea.

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

«After BitTorrent, the effect of release lag on science - fiction and action movies is much greater than it is for other genres,» Danaher says.

Ballard goes the furthest and, quoting from his earlier writing, says: «Science fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrelevance.

Could this fading star be the first evidence that other cosmic cultures were more than science fiction?

Targeting conclusions that are closer to fiction than science, both Fine and Jordan - Young highlight exaggerations, unreplicated claims, and other silliness from research on neurological differences between the human sexes.

Generally, I resent such scenes when they come across as forced or insincere (in other words, most of them), but I didn't get that feeling from «Stranger Than Fiction.»

From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.

Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science - fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the»90s.

Tagged as: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, List, Old School, step brothers, Stranger Than Fiction, talladega nights, The Other Guys, The Producers, Wedding Crashers, will ferrell, Zoolander

Also, this is only the second time in more than a decade that three soundtracks have been in the top five, with the other two releases being the original musical The Greatest Showman (at number three) and the original fan - fiction garbage Fifty Shades Freed (at number five).

The test sees if a work of fiction involves two or more women talking about something other than a man.

This time Kosinski brings us another science fiction, epic, adventure headlined by none other than Hollywood powerhouse, Tom Cruise.

Looks awesome but I don't see it getting attention from anyone other than those in the science fiction crowd.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Don't get me wrong: the idea of someone performing copycat murders based on an author's work of fiction has potential (even if it's been done before, most recently in the pilot for the TV drama «Castle»), but there's nothing in the trailer that suggests the film will be anything other than a generic whodunit.

The few stories that King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman are arguably more violent and cynical than his other work, and science fiction novel The Running Man is one of them.

Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.

Will Ferrell (Blades of Glory, Stranger Than Fiction), who seems determined to appear in a sports parody every other film, stars as Jackie Moon, the owner, coach and star player of the Tropics.

Other notable film and television credits have included the Harry Potter film series, Wit (2001), Love Actually (2003), Angels in America (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), An Education (2009), and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010).

And though I've always favored Ferrell's absurdist, noisier roles (Elf, Anchorman, Step Brothers) to his goofy «straight» characters (Kicking & Screaming, Land of the Lost, The Other Guys), there's something to be said for Ferrell stepping out of the lime light and playing the middle ground between the two (Old School, Stranger Than Fiction, Wedding Crashers).

BEST ORIGINAL SONG THE WINNER: «Ordinary Love», Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom OTHER NOMINEES: «Atlas», The Hunger Games: Catching Fire «Let It Go», Frozen «Please Mr. Kennedy», Inside Llewyn Davis «Sweeter than Fiction», Once Chance

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

Strip away half of the characters, have Chili trying to push forward a real musical talent other than a singer with dynamic range, and stop riding so hard on Pulp Fiction for inspiration, and perhaps Be Cool might actually live up to its name.

As you may know from some other writings along the way, I've found this issue disturbing for some time, particularly because the digital dynamic seems to support some genre - fiction work more readily than it does literary fiction.

The other awesome thing about nonfiction eBooks is that they're actually much easier to sell than fiction, and you can make more money overall, which can then allow you to fund your fiction writing efforts.

We look for books that are unique, providing readers with something other than the standard commercial fiction already lining bookstore shelves.

Since we're prevented from being able to distribute stuff for free on Amazon and Barnes and Noble (well ok, indirectly we can through the latter via Smashwords as long as it is a complete something), I don't know of a good way to pursue this other than from one's own site or some of those amateur fiction sites like Fictionpress or Wattpad.

I think the reason I decided to write dystopian fiction for my first novel, is nothing more than the story I wanted to tell fits into that category better than others.

A true lover of the written word, there is little she enjoys more (other than maybe a nice glass of Merlot or a Starbucks peppermint mocha) than polishing stories — both fiction and non-fiction — to make them the best they can be.

People have a tendency to believe that the first book of yours they read was also the first book you wrote, so many readers who were introduced to Liz through Eat, Pray, Love (there were more than 8 million of them) neglected to notice that she had already written three other books before that, two of them fiction.

«He and others have mentioned the need for indie authors to start creating more innovative fiction rather than fiction that's just like what the mainstream has, only the mainstream didn't publish it.»

A quick summation: yes, there is a difference between genre fiction and literary fiction; no, genre fiction is not necessarily «lower» than literary fiction or mere escapism; yes, literary fiction has just as many cliches and tropes as genre fiction; and yes, there are many examples of top quality work and utter crap in both categories, and people shouldn't pigeon - hole their reading habits to solely one or the other.

It was really easy for me to figure out what non-fiction titles I wanted — because I'm going to be doing more world building than I usually do, I want to be well - grounded in military history, among other things — but figuring out what fiction titles I wanted to read was harder.

Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be easier for a fiction author than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.

As an indie author of nine titles, a mix of fiction and nonfiction, and as one who has shepherded more than thirty other books to publication, I've been around the block a few times.

Other than that post I've never done anything more with the subject of flash fiction.