Sentences with phrase «story by fiction»

«In two experimental studies, we were able to show that self - reported empathic skills significantly changed over the course of one week for readers of a fictional story by fiction authors Arthur Conan Doyle or José Saramago,» they wrote in the findings.

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You can best understand the importance of style by reading fiction and studying what makes a great story.

Was it written to portray a god as a real enti ty or was it intended by the author to be a fictional story: Bible (God): yes — was written as a non fiction book Odyssey (Zeus): no - intended to be fiction by the author

And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

Despite the chaos and absurdity into which the story has fallen in fiction, we all try to make sense of our lives by seeing them as stories.

In our own day, inspired by centuries of moral fiction and visual mythos, novelists and rock composers have made her Jesus» faithful Greek or Eurasian prostitute, anguished because he won't love her and she doesn't know how to love him; earthy, beautiful, the saintly hooker who spices the story of the Galilean on his way to Superstardom.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

The whole story of gas chambers and crematoria is pure fiction, a gigantic hoax, a myth, a vicious fraud invented by World Jewry in order to gain financial reparations from Germany and global sympathy for the state of Israel.

I knew the story to be a fiction, and was puzzled by other children who, encouraged by their parents as I was not, professed to «believe in Santa Claus.»

My belief in Jesus has nothing to do with the stories of the greatest fiction book ever written (again and again and again... conveniently omitting any stories written by the women of the time, I must add!!

It's not the best fiction I've ever read, but Young weaves together a compelling story, the first four chapters culminating with Mackenzie's decision to follow up on a mysterious note he finds in his mailbox, apparently left there by God.

In a science - fiction short story of the 1950s, The Marching Morons by Cyril M. Kornbluth, a benevolent government, aware that its citizens are devoted to excitement, arranges for their cars (automatically piloted, of course, for this is sci - fi, and their speed restricted to a decorous 40 mph) to evoke the sensation of Formula One speedsters.

A Voyage to the Moon — a satirical account of a space voyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of the moon.

Full marks to Gollancz for publishing this collection of stories by one of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers — but it, and other book publishers, would be doing themselves, writers and readers a favour by providing more outlets for short fiction.

Space precludes a full listing here of every real - world marvel lifted straight from a work of futuristic fiction, but suffice it to say that an artificial Earth - orbiting satellite was depicted in the sci - fi short story «Brick Moon» by Edward Everett Hale in 1869.

The answer is they all wrote stories that involved a journey to the Moon, one of the oldest and most popular themes of the science fiction genre until 25 years ago, when it was crushed by the weight of reality and Neil Armstrong's foot.

My favourite chapter is written by Louis and Morrow, and takes the form of a science fiction short story illustrating the future of workgroup computing.

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics By James Kakalios (Gotham) Professor and professed nerd Kakalios explains the quantum world through science fiction characters like Buck Rogers and Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, who «gained independent control over his quantum mechanical wave function» to teleport and change his size.

On the other is story itself, represented by two great works of fiction: Homer's Odyssey and Dr Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!

Virtual reality is still merely a computer dream — or nightmare — made famous by a series of science fiction stories by William Gibson, who deliberately never even tried to explain just what it was.

For more «mainstream» selections, they looked to Amazon.com top - sellers such as Danielle Steel's The Sins of the Mother and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, and to anthologies of genre fiction, including a sci - fi story by Robert Heinlein.

I also like to watch historical fiction, or even historical non-fiction, but a good story from days gone by will capture my interest right away.

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Each month, read contemporary stories by up - and - coming and established fiction authors, and classic flash - length stories from famous authors whose content is in the public.

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The plot, which is a parody of a dystopian science fiction story along the lines of Tron or The Matrix, focuses on an unexceptional mini-figure construction worker, Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt).

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Synopsis: Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, «Minority Report» is an action - detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054,... [MORE]

While I have no doubt that he believes this fiction (in spirit if not particulars, perhaps), Brashear's story — even in its big - screen dilution — is so manifestly about long - term, institutionalized racism, that such a comment appears patently naive, even disingenuous (the movie even makes the case, somewhat ironically, that the Navy's greatness is proved by the fact that someone so exceptional as Brashear would want to be part of it).

Based on the tell - all book «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made» co-written by Sestero and Tom Bissell, «The Disaster Artist» is one of those stranger - than - fiction stories that very few people would believe if it hadn't actually happened, but here we are.

The plot is, by Mr. Tarantino's standards, fairly linear, without the baroque chronology of «Pulp Fiction» or the parallel story lines of «Inglourious Basterds.»

The filmmakers referred to the film more as fan fiction and it might not actually live up to the standard set by Mark Twain's stories, but it certainly is fun to see them try to tell a modernized story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

Peppered with intertextuality drawn from both fact and fiction, American Horror Story is an anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the chaps responsible for the equally hellish, never - ending musical nightmare, Glee.

Machine Gun Preacher is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) and is based on the true story of an alcoholic ex-con who finds purpose in his life when he becomes a missionary and begins to build an orphanage for the children of South Sudan.

While part of the pleasure is unpicking the threads of fact and fiction, though, the real beauty of American Horror Story — if such an expression isn't too oxymoronic — is that each new season is by default completely accessible to newbies.

They're both produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by up - and - coming filmmakers (as were the original Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and all of the films so far have featured strong casts and high - concept science fiction stories.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

«District 9,» a science - fiction action horror story by freshmen South African filmmakers, conquered the box office on its opening weekend Aug. 14 and deservedly so.

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by Kaufman; a making - of featurette; interviews with Adams, co-star Art Hindle, Richter and composer Denny Zeitlin; and a 1955 episode of TV's Science Fiction Theatre, «Time Is Just a Place,» adapted from a Finney short story.

Peggy Guggenheim - Art Addict Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, written by Bernadine Colish, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, and John Northrup (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Bouncing between Europe and the US as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim's life story was as swirling as the design of her uncle's museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable.

Arrival — Science Fiction, based on the 1998 short story «Story of Your Life» by Ted Chstory «Story of Your Life» by Ted ChStory of Your Life» by Ted Chiang.

And Author: The JT Leroy Story is stranger - than - fiction documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, which follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrStory is stranger - than - fiction documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, which follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrstory behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrstory of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.

There actually is a story (savvy science fiction addicts have compared it to the similarly - premised 1951 short story, «The Marching Morons», by Cyril Kornbluth) within the film, revolving around an average - intellect military librarian named Joe (average Joe, get it?)

Now, a comprehensive new book on the film — Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpiece (by Jason Bailey from Voyageur Press)-- reveals some intriguing casting near - miss and what if?

Chock full of original art inspired by the film, timelines, quotables, deleted scene details, influences, pop culture references, behind - the - scenes photos, scene breakdowns and more, Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpiece is available now.

Which is not to say a true story can't or shouldn't be embellished, but the layering - on of these moments and coincidences, and the telescoping of them all into such a brief period just feels too constructed, and so ironically does precisely the opposite to what it's designed to — it slightly softens the true force of the tragedy by reminding us that there is fiction at work here too.