Sentences with phrase «pieces of fiction about»

We linked our Literacy text to Space, studying «Tower to the Sun» by Colin Thomson and the children used their space knowledge to write some fantastic pieces of fiction about towers into space.

Lord of the Rings is a timeless piece of fiction about very human, very flawed characters banding together to take on insurmountable odds.

Not exact matches

The only fact about the bible is that it's the best piece of fiction ever written.

Yes, Breaking Bad has some grisly moments, but ultimately, it's a remarkable piece of modern American fiction about the lengths we will go to justify our own evil, the little temptations that start adding up to real wickedness and the ripple effects of our own actions.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

Endo's 1966 novel «Silence,» a stern, exquisite piece of historical fiction about Portuguese Jesuit priests persecuted for their beliefs in 17th century Japan, walks a thin line separating West from East, religious fervor from spiritual skepticism.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

I still love the power of fiction, and I've written pieces about movies in the past year that I'm proud of, like this one on David Lynch and this one on the intersection of movies and video games.

The best thing about the film, though, is that even though it's all about real events and real people, it still feels like a very well - written piece of fiction — not to say it feels unrealistic, it's more to say that the characters are more developed and intriguing than in most biopics.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Edgar Rice Burroughs» tale of an ordinary man who mysteriously transports to Mars, first serialized in 1912, is the template for just about every piece of fantastical science fiction that has come after.

Though it's visually arresting, this film is not quite as deep as the source novel, a speculative piece of historical fiction about Johannes Vermeer's famous painting, but Johansson shines as the girl who inspires the great painter played by Colin Firth.

Another student, an especially strong creative writer, composed a terrific piece of historical fiction about the Civil War.

And my third piece will be to advice about a good image: the saying «never judge a book by its cover» was created by a lazy author who didn't give much thought of what really works in the marketing of both fiction and nonfiction.

I was a magazine journalist who had written a few nonfiction articles about Maine game wardens, and one Saturday morning, I started noodling around with a short piece of fiction — not even a story, just an anecdote — about a rookie warden and a marauding black bear.

Am just about to start on a piece of fiction and need to start thinking of these things

One key similarity is, it's very result - driven — it is all about finishing a piece of fiction, be it for print or ebook publication.

Atavist's Evan Ratliff spoke with GoodeReader at this year's DBW event to talk about how that popularity has led to even more platforms growing up to meet the need for novella length digital fiction and pieces of journalism that would have once been considered impossibly long for print media.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 words...

A prime example of this is #fridayflash, where every Friday authors publish a Flash Fiction Piece, and tweet about it using the #fridayflash hashtag.

Stories about the Loch Ness Monster, George Washington having wooden teeth and cracking your knuckles causing arthritis are nice pieces of fiction with no proven basis in fact.

Instead, I will simply say this: Modern Warfare 2 is a piece of interactive (note INTERACTIVE) fiction that tells a story about (you guessed it) Modern Warfare.

When I started playing World of Warcraft, I drew comics, stand - alone pieces, and wrote fan fiction about my characters.

Every videogame, comic book, fan fiction and media piece about Sonic is a negotiation of Sonic's relationship to his mascot image.

In lieu of a traditional postmortem, the author has written an extensive blog post about what led him to create this piece of interactive fiction and why he thinks the topic is so important.

I had the opportunity to dialogue with Colm Tóibín about his piece of fiction, and subsequently chatted with Callum Innes about water / colour while he was working in his studio in Edinburgh, Scotland.

An art review on Friday about «Fore,» at the Studio Museum in Harlem, misspelled the given name of one of the museum's artists in residence, who will present a text piece based on urban street fiction.

McEwen's booklet also reproduces a newspaper ad memorializing real estate developer Samuel J. Lefrak («The Vision to See / The Faith to Believe / The Courage to Do»), images of sidewalks dotted with discarded chewing gum, a view of a landscape pocked with bomb craters, and a news brief about a boy sticking a piece of gum onto a $ 1.5 million Helen Frankenthaler painting during a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts — as well as a digression into the life of Hassel, a Danish writer of pulp combat fiction who drove a German Panzer tank during the war.

He is so earnest about this blatantly alarmist piece of fiction.

His opinion piece, Separating copyright facts from fiction, followed by another blog post this week, The False Link Between Locks and Levies, are two in a series of blog posts and opinion pieces written by him recently that purport to expose as inaccurate statements made about Bill C - 32 by various individuals and organizations.