Sentences with phrase «than fiction for»

But in the industry as a whole, non-fiction is larger than fiction for adults.

Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger than fiction for Britain in 2012.

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I tell the full story of how Karpelès found the Bitcoins (details he revealed for the first time in our conversations) and the stranger - than - fiction implications of Bitcoin's price surge in my new feature in Fortune, «Mt. Gox and the Surprising Redemption of Bitcoin's Biggest Villain.»

For those who love pulp fiction or the crime blotters in their town weeklies, however, there is no better place to look than in the small print of the Wall Street Journal's B section.

In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.

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.

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

Even though Lewis stated that his stories were conceived as «holiday fiction» for the amusement of children (perhaps primarily for the amusement of the child in him), again we return to the question «Was there more to his stories than that?»

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

But, since we humans have been mixing with one another for a tens of thousands of years, since it is more likely that any random black person on earth has more in common genetically with a random white person than another random black person (due to probability, because there are so many black people from differing genetic subgroups), and since humans share 96 % of our genetic makeup with chimps, the concept of «race» is really, scientifically, just a fiction best left to ignorant crazies like the Aryan nation.

Thus, fiction and idealization in excellent art are means for achieving greater truthfulness than would be possible through fidelity to literal fact.

If our models are to lead us to ask, and seek answers for, new questions about the world, we must regard them as something more than «logical superfluities», «illicit attempts at explanation», «convenient fictions», or the like.

It's much easier for snails to develop thin waists n grow hips, butts n busts n learn to twerk than for Wenger and the board to listen to the fans I don't even waste my brain cells trying to imagine such an impossible situation n I advice all of you to shun such thoughts of pure fiction n immense madness

Real life can be stranger than fiction, as moms obsessed over their children are not solely characters devised for television and films.

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.

Escapist fiction might be the answer but for those with more than a passing interest in politics, the Christmas break provides an opportunity for both serious and light - hearted reading.

For fiction, I can't remember enjoying anything more than Tolstoy's War and Peace, because it is so powerfully written — the characters, themes and narrative stand out.

And now, for your latest stranger - than - fiction installment about the New York State GOP....

One of the reasons we seem to be trapped in the pages of fiction — in which a 200 - 1 outsider has become leader of HM Opposition, appointing a Shadow Chancellor who has praised the IRA's «armed struggle» and cheerfully advocates the overthrow of capitalism, and a minister for agriculture who is against the farming of animals — is that the ascent of Jeremy Corbyn is easier to explain in retrospect than it was to see coming.

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

«After BitTorrent, the effect of release lag on science - fiction and action movies is much greater than it is for other genres,» Danaher says.

For more than a half - century, NASA has made the stuff of science fiction into reality.

Asimov, whose phenomenal literary output totalled more than 400 books, began writing fiction for the American «pulp» magazines in the 1930s.

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.

For more than eight years, we have authored this column on facts and fictions in mental health, an opportunity for which we are profoundly gratefFor more than eight years, we have authored this column on facts and fictions in mental health, an opportunity for which we are profoundly grateffor which we are profoundly grateful.

For those of you who don't know, Valent Chamber is a pretty cool site that features fan fiction and original fiction with black women as the main characters and more often than not in interracial relationships.

Real life is often far more nuanced than fiction, and being prepared for the former allows you to enjoy that distinction.

Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young - adult fFiction, Top 100 Teen Novels More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young - adult fictionfiction.

The DVD for Stranger than Fiction contains six behind - the - scenes features and two intriguing deleted scenes.

PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.

In True Story, the type of drama for which the expression «stranger than fiction» was coined, James Franco finds a creepy new application for his signature sleepiness, that narcotized daze he usually reserves for stoner comedies and award - show appearances.

His next project (which, though it doesn't begin filming until next month, is currently slotted for an end - of - year release) is a New York - set period dramedy based on the stranger - than - fiction, real - life FBI sting operation (ABSCAM) that brought down numerous crime figures and corrupt government officials in 1980.

Here, Stranger Than Fiction flails about too often for comfort.

As for dramatic roles, in addition to «Stranger Than Fiction», he gives an admirably restrained performance in Adam Rapp's «Winter Passing».

More than that, the work of Sam Barlow could be an illuminating beacon for future games that aim at offering innovative gameplay in police fiction games.

STRANGER THAN FICTION, a dark comedy - drama from comedian Will Ferrell (TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY; BLADES OF GLORY) and director MARC FORSTER (QUANTUM OF SOLACE; THE KITE RUNNER) is quite notably funny, and even when you think you're going to regret laughing (I won't ruin the movie for those of you who have not seen it), you do not regret anything at all.

But it was SO MUCH better than 90 % of anything else that it was the be all and end all of science fiction films for me and my friends.

When Gravity came out a bit more than a year ago, a thousand science - fiction - loving bloggers leapt to their keyboards to explain why the film was a «game changer»; Boyhood doesn't have a constituency that's quite so... naturally vocal, so this post is here for the next time someone shrugs at the marvels of Boyhood.

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.

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.

According to the press notes, «Reach Me» director John Herzfeld first wrote the script for this ensemble dramedy circa 2001, which makes sense given that the film bears more than a faint aroma of Herzfeld's «2 Days in the Valley» (1997), one of the least offensive of the era's many «Pulp Fiction» also - rans.

In fact, for a film that's based on a true story, «Machine Gun Preacher» is riddled with more clichés than most pieces of fiction.

People often say that you can make a movie out of a pulp fiction better than a movie out of a classic and I think there is some reason for that because there's something more you can play with.

As a result of the first five years of Catalyst Forum gatherings, more than $ 20 million has been raised for 67 documentary and fiction film projects.

Sacha Gervasi was a surprise nominee for the Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award at this year's Independent Spirit Awards, and now it looks like the movie will finally be getting a proper U.S. theatrical release.

«Vanilla Sky» (2001) Crowe's reteaming with Cruise was a major departure for the director; a remake of the Spanish hit «Abre los ojos,» it's a dark film — far darker than anything the director's made before — with touches of science - fiction and horror.

For a moviemaker equally at home on blockbusters like World War Z (2013) and more intimate features like Finding Neverland (2004) or Stranger than Fiction (2006), Forster has impressively maintained a unique visual style that is identifiably his own.

But its stranger - than - fiction premise only serves to heighten everything — the emotions, the absurdity, and the sympathy for its central robber played with a zany, unhinged verve by the scene - stealing Ethan Hawke.