Sentences with phrase «rather than science fiction»

Last week, for instance, brought a fresh spate of news that suggest more people are treating Bitcoin as a serious form of money rather than a science fiction experiment.

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.

The parent should easily associate your site design with children's books rather than a science fiction novel.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

, 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.

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

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.

Rather than existing in some high fantasy world with science fiction elements to a greater or lesser degree, we play in a world that, save for monsters and a few other elements, is very like the real one.

Rather than a sequel or a straight reboot, this Prey is more of a re-imagining combining elements of science fiction and horror, and it looks glorious.

Rather than Johns, they may recall Terry Winters, but without the fuss or the science fiction.

His work /, \, \, / (the Final Cut) is a wall - mounted square whose straight edges have been oriented 45 degrees to the ground; as such it is similar to Ivan Kliun's untitled black square from 1917, except that Zucconi's piece, rather than absorb light, is made of mirror wrapped in a glossy poster for the science fiction movie Blade Runner.

But, surely the fact that there is still life on earth despite previous huge changes in our atmospheric composition suggests that the Venus effect is a bad science fiction scenario rather than a serious possibility.

The part about CO2 is correct, but the part about positive forcings is yet to be proven correct and the part about it all leading to disaster is most certainly overblown to the point of being science fiction rather than science fact.

It seems that, rather than basing knowledge about the material universe on experimental evidence, the Royal Society and its senior members instead seek authority in science fiction; the extrapolation of superficially plausible science, forward into the future, where a drama plays out.

The courts in various countries have twisted themselves into knots to deal with claims of Scientology to be a religion, usually to avoid tax (probably the original reason for calling that particular offshoot of a science fiction writer's brain a religion rather than a plot outline).