Sentences with phrase «time in this fictional world»

I'm almost halfway through this book, and even though it's a page - turner, I find myself reading slowly, savoring my time in this fictional world.

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Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

Elphaba Thropp / ˈ ɛ l f ə b ə ˈ θ r ɒ p / is a fictional character in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Fixed at the pillory people feel up Grete immorally and furthermore pelt her with unsound fruits... torture photo gallery from Inquisition World porn website

Played by Michael B. Jordan with a juvenile ardor, rage boiling under his skin, Killmonger is a beautiful fictional creation, the embodiment of this passage from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's Rage and Time: «The person who is en - raged in the highest form enters the world like a bullet enters the battle... Wherever rage flames up we are dealing with the complete warrior.»

Two vastly different worlds, very different games, with one thing in common: great co-op times to be had in the fictional worlds of long ago made new again.

Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori, who lived during the time of the story of THE WIND RISES to create Jiro, a fictional character at the center of an epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world

The story is set in a fictional history of real world events set in two time periods, the 16th and 21st centuries.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

When Hunt is forced to freeclimb up the outside of the tallest building the world — the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — with only the help of one of those science - fictional gadgets, which doesn't work as well as it should, I was laughing with delight as well as gasping in shared panic, it's that breathtakingly intimate while at the same time putting you right in the middle of big, heady action, innovative stuff we haven't seen before.

In my personal world (one that, at times, seems to take on fictional overtones), the image of Cobble's Knot provides a nice way to begin pulling at the threads of my own practice as I implement a new arts - based alternative program for seventh - and eighth - grade students.

Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

The timing is perfect — in the age of Dan Savage's It Gets Better (2011) and recent Supreme Court rulings on marraige equality, a book meant for young adults features a real - life gay teen couple kissing on the cover, standing in for the book's two fictional boys, ex-boyfriends hoping to share the world's longest kiss.

The new game in the 11 year long series is simply titled Medal of Honor, and will be leaving the world war II theatre for the first time in it's history with a modern day setting of Afghanistan where we will be introduced to a small band of fictional characters.

I've been pointing at how animal companionship in videogames tends to be informed by an utilitarian and reductionist logic: Pokemon are both weapons and collectibles, existing in a fictional world designed to naturalize this instrumental relationship, Neko Atsume is an addicting conditioning device dispensing immaterial cuteness for your time and money; virtual pets are nothing but a few lightly dressed variables banking on our tendency to attribute feelings and thought to artificial entities, the Tamagochi effect.

Mission Against Terror (MAT) is a free to play first person shooter set in a fictional time not far from our own, pitting two teams against each other all around the world.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

Considering normal life mundane, Tony prefers to spend most of his time absorbed in fictional worlds that stimulate his imagination.

In the world of online gaming a lot of players like engaging in lengthy campaigns with a fictional character, generally from some distant planet with a fascinating history, and most of the times an ev.In the world of online gaming a lot of players like engaging in lengthy campaigns with a fictional character, generally from some distant planet with a fascinating history, and most of the times an ev.in lengthy campaigns with a fictional character, generally from some distant planet with a fascinating history, and most of the times an ev...

For those who missed out on one of the greatest racers ever first time around, Burnout Paradise drops you off in the high - octane streets of Paradise City, a fictional world that brings racing to an all - new level.

I may have had my eyes and ears wrapped up in Ragnarok's vision, but trudging as I was with the analog stick — swiveling my head to catch glimpses of nearby trees or distant mountainous shots with my own head, there were times where my legs felt pushed, compelled, into the World like my whole body was entering the fictional realm.

An early example of video games» potential to immerse their players in a fictional world, Myst remains one of the most iconic, engaging adventure games of all time.

In a coincidence that could only happen in the art world, the Harlem - based curatorial duo Triple Candie was also working with a fictional African - American artist at around the same time that Ms. Woolford's career was taking ofIn a coincidence that could only happen in the art world, the Harlem - based curatorial duo Triple Candie was also working with a fictional African - American artist at around the same time that Ms. Woolford's career was taking ofin the art world, the Harlem - based curatorial duo Triple Candie was also working with a fictional African - American artist at around the same time that Ms. Woolford's career was taking off.

In The Future of Music, artist Greg Barth introduces us to fictional character Carré Bleu, a «world - famous» music producer who invented many of the sounds we know today while modulating «time, space, and gravity.»

What sort of world is it that obliges us to take into account, at the same time and in the same breath, the nature of things, technologies, sciences, fictional beings, religions large and small, politics, jurisdictions, economies and unconsciousnesses?

You do have such an amazing molecule in your fictional world, defying gravity it can stay up in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years accumulating though it's one and a half times heavier than air, and, with no heat capacity to spit at, it can trap heat, or, heck you can't even get your stories to say the same thing consistently, it becomes this great thermal blanket stopping heat escaping... just how much of that blanket is holes?