Sentences with phrase «part of a fantasy world»

When Brisnay discovers that she is a part of a fantasy world and meets Nickolaus, her miserable life takes a turn for the -LSB-...]

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The world may or may not be as tidy as it is often possible to conceive it to be; but it is part, and surely a legitimate part, of our inheritance from the successes of science, quite apart from anything else, that given two otherwise satisfactory interpretations of which one is simpler then that simpler one is preferable even if there is no means of judging — by appeal to evidence, say — that it is not, in respect of its greater simplicity, mere plausible fantasy.

We investigate how a world - renowned evangelist was exposed for falsifying significant parts of his testimony «More extraordinary than fantasy, more remarkable... More

We investigate how a world - renowned evangelist was exposed for falsifying significant parts of his testimony «More extraordinary than fantasy, more remarkable than...

They appear in many parts of the world in folk tales, legends, and myths, as well as in the dreams and fantasies of individuals.

I love fantasy books, particularly those set in the world we know, and I also really enjoy reading (and writing) books which are part of a series, because the longer you spend with characters, the more they feel like friends.

Hardcore fans of the genre who simply can't get enough of hacking and slashing through fantasy worlds will probably get their money's worth, but the rest should wait for the game to appear under Games for Gold program like the first part.

Bryan Fuller has been playing with the netherworld between life and death in such shows as Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls, but the alchemy comes together in this fantasy - laced world, thanks in large part to the visual imagination of co-producer and pilot director Barry Sonnenfeld.

For the most part, the delicate, meandering project serves as an intriguing showcase for Pacino and Green at once, bringing his world to life with a mixture of documentary realism and subtle fantasy.

Unlike most King works, this is an adventure fantasy epic that is for the most part not set in our real world, yet the premise — a young boy in a dysfunctional family who dreams of a violent fantasy world — is as King as it gets.

Part of what distinguishes Black Panther is its deftness, its ability to locate character struggles within in a world that feels genuinely engaged with the present moment — in a way that does not simply kowtow to «The Way We Live» back - patting — even as it weaves its own fantasies.

The Tolkien universe's biggest scholar isn't Peter Jackson, or Ian McKellen or even the ghost of JRR Tolkien himself; it's Stephen Colbert, and the world's most unapologetic fanboy had all of his Middle Earth fantasies come true by finally becoming part of the...

The appeal of his work comes in part from the seductive fantasy world (strangely but appealingly mid-Atlantic) he created: with quintessentially Gallic characters who wear hats and raincoats straight out of a cartoon Raymond Chandler universe.

The worst part for me is that it seemed like it wanted to be better - it's set in a fantasy version of our world where zombies and vampires and other creatures are real, but nothing really came of it other than a brief interesting snippet about a zombie uprising that

The worst part for me is that it seemed like it wanted to be better - it's set in a fantasy version of our world where zombies and vampires and other creatures are real, but nothing really came of it other than a brief interesting snippet about a zombie uprising that lasted all of five pages.

Part thriller, part romance, part coming - of - age fantasy, it's set in a world where women have the ability to fly — and one young man dreams of joining tPart thriller, part romance, part coming - of - age fantasy, it's set in a world where women have the ability to fly — and one young man dreams of joining tpart romance, part coming - of - age fantasy, it's set in a world where women have the ability to fly — and one young man dreams of joining tpart coming - of - age fantasy, it's set in a world where women have the ability to fly — and one young man dreams of joining them.

Part of this is because I have a readership now (though we'll see how many follow me from secondary world high fantasy to a contemporary fantasy set in Arizona!)

And you often find that, particularly with fantasy writers, any genre where someone will be inventing a lot, including the world, that you can see the real distinctive parts of them in the name that they choose.

It evokes the best parts of the classic Infinity Engine games like Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment (both found elsewhere on this list) while striking out on its own path with a compelling fantasy yarn and a richly detailed original world.

The world within Dawn of War 3 is based on the Warhammer 40K space age tabletop / fantasy universe and is broken up into two parts.

Massive creatures like trolls and dragons are also part of the game, really bringing the whole fantasy world alive and giving the impression that yes, creatures exist, and no, they don't give a damn what your level is — they come out of the woodwork or the sky, and suddenly attack your party with unreserved aggression.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is undoubtedly among the most intriguing games coming out in the early part of 2018, as an open world RPG utterly devoid of fantasy and casts players into the role of a literal nobody.

Interacting with NPCs is just a small part of what makes the whole Divinity: Original Sin 2 world and story so compelling, as the whole plot is quite gripping, especially for fantasy fans.

He is the author of Stay Awhile and Listen, a three - part series that chronicles the history of World of WarCraft developer Blizzard Entertainment and Diablo / Diablo II developer Blizzard North; Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by Schiffer Publishing; and HERITAGE, a young adult fantasy novel.

It had fantasy elements, and all the best parts of Final Fantasy — airships, chocobos, Moogles, oversized swords — but with a cast - iron internal logic that helped to make its expansive and detailed world feel real.

«At Niantic, our goal is to leverage technology to create real world experiences that help people to discover the wonderful, and often magical parts of the world around them,» said John Hanke, founder and CEO of Niantic, Inc. «The beloved Harry Potter stories have captured imaginations worldwide for more than 20 years and soon we'll turn the fantasy into augmented reality, allowing fans and their friends to become wizards and witches.»

But for the most part, the majority of their works are set in fantasy worlds with no connection to reality.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotFANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotFANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotfantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy anotFANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

Part of the reason why people play games is to escape to fantastical dream worlds or play out fantasies that they have about the real world.

Typically, they're programmed as computer - controlled helpers because developers assume that part of their games» allure comes from the power fantasy of being The One — the character that saves the world or stops the terrorist from executing his nefarious plot.

- Got ta love Tim Schafer's chutzpah: after news of his next game allegedly leaked, he decided to announce Double Fine's triumphant follow - on to Psychonauts, explaining: «In this all new, action based IP, you play the part of a barbaric hero in an epic fantasy world, fighting his way from Rock and Roll Hell to Rock and Roll Heaven.»

The drawings were juxtaposed with a sculpture that seemed more lasting: Light Days, 2012, a deformed head perched on an elongated, upside - down U. Painted the color of desiccated skin and embedded with actual bone, this monstrous bipedal body is part primitivist fantasy, part monument at the end of the world «and paired nicely with Mummy, 2012, a painting it faced, which displays the image of a head wrapped in gauze.

Some artists, one might argue, build their own fantasy worlds out of reality's symbolic spare parts, twisted to their own ends.

While each country has its own traditions, an essential part of the festivities is the idealised portrait shot by professional photographers, which often aim to reproduce the fantasy world depicted in high - fashion magazines.

Artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe will transform Chelsea's Marlborough Gallery into a «junkyard fantasy» as part of their latest project, which hosts a grimy subterranean world with elements of sci - fi and squalor, described by Freeman as the debris after «some horrible event had happened and everyone had to evacuate.»

A failure as a politician, he has found much consolation in the unmerited attention he receives from parts of the media, where he repeats ad nauseam his fantasies of a world that is cooling and icecaps that are thickening: explicit denial of observable phenomena.

Most notably, the company has developed multiple spinoffs designed in part to introduce new players to the colorful fantasy world of Dragon Quest, while also slowly bringing older Dragon Quest games to widely - used platforms like smartphones and the Nintendo 3DS.