Sentences with phrase «taken fictional stories»

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

Take the fictional story of the French artist's grandfather ---- an overlooked Conceptual artist and close friend of Kurt Schwitters's ---- that has proved to be a golden thread from which she has spun a number

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He has rarely taken formal action on the very regular publication of fictional stories that are written about him and he has worked hard to develop a professional relationship with the media, focused on his work and the issues he cares about.

If you can find something written by homer where it says, «please don't take me seriously, this is supposed to be a fictional story» I'll eat my shoe.»

Stories such as those in the books of Ruth, Esther, Judith, which are nowadays taken as fictional rather than historical, use not only plenty of proper names, but often supply unnecessarily exact details.

A narrative form of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.

A fictional account of the true story of Anonymous and LulzSec, the collective swarm who took on the most powerful capitalist forces from their bedrooms.

They are films that are either documentaries or real life dramas that take the basic true elements of a story and put it in a fictional setting.

It's not that the film is hard to follow, it's just that writer - director - star Ben Affleck took the «everything and the kitchen sink» approach to telling the two - hour - plus story of fictional mobster Joe Coughlin, and it didn't work.

Jauja takes Alonso's contemplative portraits of men on the outskirts of civilization and adds professional actors (Viggo Mortensen in the Viggo Mortensen role, a multilingual yet taciturn historical military man), a period setting, a fully fictional story, and maybe even some magic to achieve his biggest minimalist movie yet.

As the fictional story of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, never finer), a 1950s cult leader who mentors disturbed World War II Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix in the performance of his career), The Master doesn't flinch at taking on the business of religion.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

The bulk of the story takes place in the fictional town of Hawthorne, Nebraska, where Dave and Woody stop on the way to Lincoln to reunite with Woody's living relatives and old acquaintances — all of whom take his fantasy of good fortune for fact.

A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland - firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney)- who are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.

Of course, there has to be a fictional Hollywood take on the true story as well, and Oliver Stone has taken it upon himself to dramatize Snowden's tale, enlisting Joseph Gordon Levitt to play the whistle blower.

If not, Stephen Gaghan's Gold is a fanciful, fictional retelling of a story about Wall Street greed and hubris that is happy to take the cautionary tale and gild it with Hollywood glitz.

Rather, the bulk of the film is comprised of fictional stories that take place among many hotel guests and employees of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Bobby Kennedy was to make his acceptance speech for winning the 1968 Democratic primary.

I started to invent a story that would not take place in Detroit but in Lost River, a fictional town in an imaginary past.

He also makes hugely imaginative use of flashbacks, explaining the origins of certain characters, and even showing scenes of «fictional» stories that never took place (such as Tim Roth's men's room story).

The story takes place in a fictional 21st century modern setting where an unexplained phenomenon called the Hollow Night happens across certain parts of Japan.

While I'm not sure how much of this film is fictional and how much is «based on a true story,» I do know that this event took place and watching this movie constantly makes you wonder what would have happened if it were successful.

After reading the fictional story titled, The Trial of Cardigan Jones, I took the opportunity to teach students about the U.S. justice system.

Marilyn Burns - endorsed reading collections take imaginative fictional books and apply math lessons to the story.

I'm presently editing that story before I release it as a free ebook and the first that takes in my fictional world.

For a fictional take on Dickens, try Dan Simmons haunting Drood, the story of the friendship between Dickens and fellow author Wilkie Collins and the inspiration for his final, unfinished work.

In Dark Aemilia, Sally O'Reilly takes Aemilia Lanyer (sometimes spelled Emilia Lanier) for her choice of Dark Lady and weaves a fictional love affair between her characters that fits with the story of love and recrimination described in the sonnets.

Over they ears, as the story took shape, I spent a part of every summer and many fall and spring weekends at the real place that my fictional place grew out of.

With Orient, Bollen takes a real place — the North Fork of Long Island — and weaves a mesmerizing fictional web of characters and mysteries into a story that is as viscerally thrilling as it is intellectually precise.

Håkan Nesser has quickly joined the ranks of the great Swedish thriller authors, joined by reader - favorite character Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, whose crime stories take place in the fictional town of Maardam.

Attenberg takes a patchwork approach to Mazie's story, interspersing fictional diary entries with invented first - person testimonials from her friends.

It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts and is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos.

When writing your fictional stories, they will take shape in one of the following basic forms, each varying in length / word count: Novels Novellas Short Stories Flash Fiction The obvious difference, for the most part, is their word count / stories, they will take shape in one of the following basic forms, each varying in length / word count: Novels Novellas Short Stories Flash Fiction The obvious difference, for the most part, is their word count / Stories Flash Fiction The obvious difference, for the most part, is their word count / length.

Touch of Evil was filmed almost entirely in Venice, which Welles chose as a stand - in for the fictional Mexican border town where the story takes place.

You will play as Jeff, a disgruntled gaming veteran seeking new challenges unintendedly taken into the gaming universe of Pixelverse with incredible duty to find a way to save it from Apocalypse (any resemblance with pre-existing fictional stories is not purely fortuitous but still can not lead to the creators being held responsible.

Featuring an original story, the game takes place within a fictional virtual - reality MMORPG.

And due to its «fictional» nature, the story is going to be taking a pulpy turn:

It especially helps that Hitman is a silly and fun murderous romp through a story that could take place in the same fictional universe as The Sims.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

At a time when so many non-artists use photos of themselves to weave stories — true and fictional — about their lives, self - portraiture has taken on some weighty socio - cultural significance.

It is a fictional story about a man who lives in a wood and uses photographs taken over a six month period, mostly around the area in rural Ireland where the artist was based.

The new exhibition, which takes its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device found in Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, is about «the mammalian hand, and the tools it touches, holds and uses».

«Ken,» from the group law blog Popehat, wrote yesterday about an inane lawsuit filed against HAN demanding that they take down one of their stories about fictional killer giraffes.

The story takes place over Independence Day weekend, and Frank Bascombe, a residential specialist in fictional Haddam, N.J., is planning a journey with his troubled teenage son to the basketball and baseball halls of fame.