Sentences with phrase «way by fiction»

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Just another fiction novel written by man that was transformed into a way of life.
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.
The petition states: «Ricardians (those who believe Richard was wrongly accused of usurping the crown by murdering his way to it, but that he was actually one of our most just and enlightened kings) are clearly aware that Shakespeare's play was fiction and probably written as a satire on the corruption of power, but members of the general public often believe that Shakespeare was accurate, so each time the play is produced it only adds to the unfair reputation that Richard has been given.
For me, one of the most troubling features of Living by Fiction is the way Dillard has taken her search for the bridge between self and nature down a long dead - end path, attempting to make the bridge out of the materials of one's own life.
Good fiction helps overcome those worries by introducing them to situations and characters they can relate to, who have similar anxieties and who find ways to deal with them.
By the very act of putting the individual politician centre stage, political fiction usually goes some way to elicit sympathy for the politician.
Your paper's Discussion section must provide a feeling of resolution to the conflict created by your results, in much the same way as a work of fiction ties up loose ends and provides a feeling of resolution.
A thrilling new science - fiction play by Alistair McDowall carries Stewart Pringle a long way from home
By presenting science in a fun, exciting way, Star Trek and science fiction books can ignite interest in children who would otherwise not care about science.
Despite its increasing popularity (and glowing endorsements by high - profile vegan converts like Bill Clinton), The China Study is, in many ways, more a work of fiction than a nutritional holy grail.
There are other cult ones such as «The Texas Chainsaw Massacre» from Tobe Hooper or the saga «Friday the 13th» (By the way, the track «Slash Fiction» is a tribute to those last two).
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This insipid science fiction musical concerns a group of students paying their way through school by forming a pop band.
It's a picture of Lincoln as Slade sees him, a fiction perceived by a fiction, which is, of course, historical in its own way.
It's the only way Ford can envision himself fulfilling his Warholian birthright and assuming a place in the fiction sketched by the picture's tremendous epilogue on New York stages, where his betrayal is re-enacted into infamy.
For the creative combination of documentary and fiction, sensitivly involving the viewer into the movie, by building the strong empahty with the characters, also for showing American mythology in an unexpected way.
Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Diway of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To DiWay To Die).
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.
We do at least expect something interesting by way of real history or historical fiction, but we don't get that, either.
By way of its coolly detached and minimalist style, Funny Games was deliberately made as a nauseating antidote to films like Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) and Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), which (too) eagerly depict graphic violence for the viewer's entertainment (13).
With a script that makes fan fiction seem like Pulitzer material by comparison and features lines like «Kiss me like you want to get slapped,» it's impossible to not scoff your way through this wildly ineffective disaster of a movie.
Though some may know of Greene's connection to the movies only by way of his brilliant scripts for Carol Reed's masterpieces The Fallen Idol and The Third Man, as Tonkin puts it, «No giant of modern fiction has ever had such a long and — mostly — fruitful liaison with the cinema as Graham Greene.»
Truth, illusion, fiction, documentary: The picture has a tiger (or a Jaguar Shark) by its tail in choosing to discuss the ways we manufacture memories to craft our realities.
It wants to say a lot of things about the way people voluntarily recreate themselves, either by embracing a change of scenery and circumstance, or by letting fantasy archetypes and familiar fictions shape their self - images.
Although Type - 0 exists in the Fabula Nova Crystallis fiction - a universe shared by Type - 0, Final Fantasy XIII and the upcoming Final Fantasy XV - prior knowledge of the wider mythos isn't necessary; it's convoluted either way.
These narrative films ``... would help to break ground in Hollywood in terms of funding women storytellers and women who were directing the films...» The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will premiere three Gamechanger films: The Tale, a story about sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox; Nancy, a dramatic story blurring the lines of fact and fiction written and directed by Christina Choe; and The Long Dumb Road, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidell.
, few works of fiction have ever so vividly captured the mania of romantic infatuation without being fully consumed by its sociopathic tendencies — though the movie entertains the idea that being crazy might be the easiest way to deal with love and other annoyances of living.
But by and large, this sequel feels like bad fan fiction come to life, adopting a superficial similarity to what it is imitating, but at every step of the way betraying a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the first tick.
Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.
GUADALAJARA: Flash fiction and nonfiction, a genre that brought brevity to our bookshelves by way of literary magazines, has come of age, with Random House Mondarori's (RHM) launch of its Spanish - language Flash series, a collection of short fiction by renowned authors available only as e-books.
(By the way, women's fiction is more literary than romance; romance book covers usually sport busty women and bare - chested men.)
And by the way, in case you were wondering, fiction editors in major houses never get near the money at any time and will have no idea any of this even goes on.
On the subject of flash fiction (which, by the way, is just another term for very short stories), if you sign up to my book launch emailing list (only used when I've got a new book to shout about), you'll be able to download a free ebook of my own flash fiction collection, Quick Change.
Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be easier for a fiction author than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.
Newly posted at New Flash Fiction Review, here's «The Easy Way» by Michelle Ross: http://newflashfiction.com/michelle-ross/ If you haven't already, be sure to pick up a -LSB-...]
I'm sure I'll get told by readers if they do or don't like them in good time — in fact that's probably the best way to find out what works and what doesn't and will help me grow as a fiction writer
Along the way, Chan worked in a variety of genres, from superheroes to funny animals, and emulated his western artistic influences, including the British science fiction strip Dan Dare, Pogo, and MAD — all brilliantly mimicked by Liew, who convincingly replicates yellowing comic books, sketchbook fragments, newspaper clippings, and other media.
Like most great «translit» fiction — David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014), Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2011), and Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (2012)-- Pears» genre - bending, time - collapsing tour - de-force dazzles us with world building, but, beyond that, it reminds us that the people in those worlds survive by their stories and by the way those stories reverberate backward and forward, achieving, if only now and again, the perfect harmony we all crave.
Immartin — thanks for coming by, yes it is so true it keeps going all the time, fiction unless of course you've got a two book contract is this way.
By the way, I only spend my time reviewing Christian fiction that I can give a positive review to.
I work mainly with fiction, non-fiction and memoir authors, including professionals looking to gain more exposure and authority in their field by way of publishing a book.
One of my favorite vendors for multimedia book presenters, by the way, is AuthorBytes, which designs sites for many of my clients and a whole host of bestselling authors, fiction and nonfiction, whose names you'll recognize.
This is good experience to bring to «a new literary studio devoted to reinventing the way people experience literature by combining serialized fiction and digital platforms,» which is how Plympton describes its vision.
Along the way, he was the only person in West Virginia awarded prestigious writing fellowships by the West Virginia Commission on the Arts in all three prose categories: fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.
by Anne R. Allen I've been looking over some of my much - rejected early novels recently and discovered they have something in common with a lot of other unpublished fiction: way too much dialogue.
At its best flash fiction shouldn't stop time in a way that makes you wish you were dead, which the joke and punch - line story makes one feel; it stops time by providing a different kind of time altogether.
I think it gives authenticity to the story, especially a work of historical fiction (in this case based on a real story) and I feel the author was able to create a certain amount of suspense by slowly revealing things in a unique way.
By the way, if women's fiction series are more your thing, this week's Monday Contest highlights Susan Wiggs» Lakeshore Chronicles series.
It's often used by critics of mystery fiction as a way of upping the ante in their praise of a book, as if the only way a mystery could be truly good is to not really be a mystery.
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