Sentences with phrase «rather than fiction»

Typically I see that actual keywords tend to do better in non-fiction, rather than fiction.

What I am about to outline pertains more to nonfiction writers rather than fiction.

And what you said about the mythology, it's pretty dense on mythology rather than fiction.

«Approximately sixty to seventy - five percent of the content of most chain bookstores leans toward non-fiction rather than fiction,» explains Dawn Frederick, literary agent and owner of Red Sofa Literary.

«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.»

And if that's fact rather than fiction, this will put the RP1 in a class of one aerodynamically; even a McLaren P1 generates «only» 650 kg of downforce in its most be-winged Race setting, and it's not strictly road legal when in that mode anyway.

Although this may have functioned better as a documentary rather than a fiction film, The Big Short is still entertaining and informative.

Use your intellect and iunderstand the world of fact rather than fiction... it far nicer.

Focusing on fact rather than fiction is what will lead to the greatest success.

The underlying logic was that these were real assets with genuine underlying uses rather than the fictions created through financial engineering.

Not exact matches

This is a concept that most commonly applies to fiction writers rather than marketers, but it's just as important.

The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.

I think a «ficticious avatar» would sound too much like either a troll or a manipulative fiction and would have a negative rather than a positive effect.

But the researchers» bizarre fiction is that they are witnessing an isolated mechanical process without any prior conditions, rather than a premeditated act prosecuted intentionally, so they produce the monstrous fantasy that they have proved that the whole act is reducible to a spontaneous physical urge.

We would rather go to pieces on the basis of honesty than to patch up a civilization on the basis of fiction or wishful thinking.

I think bible haters are claiming that no excuse is necessary because bible is mostly fiction, rather than some sort of recording.

I think this could be the basis of a reworking of penal substitution based upon legal fact (Jesus broke the letter of the law), rather than legal fiction.

You know, the guys in fiction (and in life) who can kick your tail seven ways but more violent - minded people wouldn't know it because these guys would rather let someone beat them up than to throw a punch and betray their principles.

But even if such parables are taken to be revealed (rather than treated as useful fictions), can the recommended attitudes be sustained in total isolation from specifiable beliefs about the object of the attitudes?

Headlines and government agencies should be asking why obstetricians are performing unnecessary surgery on healthy pregnant women for no medical reason, rather than promoting the fiction of increasing rates of «maternal request» cesareans.

Genres, rather than books: science fiction has never appealed; pastel - covered chick lit, whose promise of escapism rapidly becomes irritation.

Rather than obsessively checking my e-mail or keeping up with journal articles, I laid around and read bad fiction, hung out with my family, caught up with friends from high school, and marveled at how much everything had changed since I started graduate school.

«The big promise of such work is its ability to give us a sense of something like the entirety of, say, 19th - century fiction, rather than the small percentage of canonical texts that are usually taken as exemplary,» says Dames.

Governments agree they should focus most on cutting greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris agreement rather than on science - fiction - like short - cuts to limit temperatures blamed for causing more heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels.

It's not long before the movie's vigorous efforts to channel Charlie Kaufman and Andrew Niccol, not to mention Ferrell's efforts to follow in Jim Carrey's footsteps, leave Stranger Than Fiction looking rather familiar, not strange at all.

Still, if you stick with them, you'll see Treme becoming a well - paced work of fiction rather than see Treme spending too much effort speaking truth to an indifferent power.

But Kaufman's scripts are often hampered by a rather flashy awareness (and perhaps overestimation) of their own intelligence — this is not the case with Stranger Than Fiction.

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.

Dealing in Gilderoy's mental collapse and corruption rather than a physical threat, it is perhaps closest to a David Lynch film, with a strangling claustrophobia and playful approach to time and space, reality and fiction.

, in which Espinosa says he wanted to make «science reality» rather than «science fiction,» filming a scenario that made some scientific sense and portraying the realistic reactions of characters living through a crisis.

Rather than being Stranger Than Fiction with insightful gender politics, Ruby Sparks is more a hipster Weird Science (John Hughes, 19than being Stranger Than Fiction with insightful gender politics, Ruby Sparks is more a hipster Weird Science (John Hughes, 19Than Fiction with insightful gender politics, Ruby Sparks is more a hipster Weird Science (John Hughes, 1985).

To be fair, of the three, Glazer's is the only one to deal with science - fiction as existentialism rather than as background and circus.

Rather than hold The Happening to the standards of the art house, or Shyamalan's earlier films, it's fairer to compare it to the B - grade science - fiction flicks of the 1950s.

Then rather than reading the trendy, sanitized fiction his sister left behind, he decides to make up the kind of bedtime story his father (Jonathan Pryce) used to tell.

What with all the Twilighting going on lately, we should be thankful that once in a while a film like Easy A comes along: a film that honestly and unwaveringly addresses what it means to be a teenage girl in this image laden, information drenched age, rather than resorting to archaic romance fiction techniques with passive heroines who do nothing but wait for inherently violent men to make all the hard decisions.

Upstream Color is science fiction at its best, using a far - out concept to explore emotions rather than something more remote or conceptual.

Shot with a minimum of fuss on handheld cameras, Lindholm lenses everything with a quiet, natural approach that suggests a fly - on - the - wall documentary rather than a piece of fiction.

Clear by now that the script by «Sergei Petrov» and «Rene Fontaine» is actually by Dylan and director Charles, the main defense of the film is that it reads a little like a Dylan song, forgetting that Dylan's songs are, for the most part, poetry of a time and a place rather than rhythmless fictions too in love with their own obscurity.

Chuck has questions about how Stephen always seems to be in the right place at the right time to capture his stranger - than - fiction scoops, but with everyone so enraptured by Stephen's work, Chuck looks like a jealous colleague rather than a journalist following his natural instincts.

The key, it seems, to successful slow - burning in narrative fiction is the narrative rather than the actual slow - burn.

Final Fantasy IX is one of my all - time favourite games, so grabbing the recent port for the PS4 was a no brainer; easily the most underrated entry in the series, FFIX suffered somewhat due to the decision to return to a more heavily fantasy oriented setting rather than the science fiction inspired ones present in the two previous — and most successful — instalments.

Jeff Nichols» retro - tinged science fiction thriller Midnight Special looks like the type of film you don't want to know too much about before you see it — which means the tidbits we've gotten (a poster, an early trailer, one thrilling clip) are tantalizing rather than being especially revealing.

If you saw the trailer and are expecting a pure action movie, you'll be disappointed as the movie is more science fiction and philosophy rather than action or thriller.

But this prequel still is better than most science - fiction out there and builds momentum rather than losing it.

Pulp Fiction comes to St. Kilda where blowing someone's brains out looks rather more amusing than shocking.

Rather than depend on the game to create a sense of historical empathy in students, I ask them to create experiences using free interactive fiction tools, like Inklewriter or Twine, to make their own choice - based stories.

Rather than having them simply retell events, I encouraged them to blend in conspiracy theories to create original historical fiction stories.

When employees are unable to discern fact from fiction — or learn to «trust their gut» rather than validate facts, companies generally pay the price.

J.R.R. Tolkien whose work is categorized as fiction rather than non-fiction, and therefore cast aside by the Common Core and Common Cores testing enthusiasts wisely noted that,

Rather than the old simplistic distinction between fact and opinion (and fiction), the standards emphasize the complexity and subtlety of all the shades of knowing or thinking.