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How To Use fictional In A Sentence

• The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
• Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots. Frieze art fair 2010 – review
• The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters. Elizabeth Marquardt: Get Ready for Group Marriage
• Chinese writers, he confronts the troubling complexities of recent history by means of a simple parable that reaches far beyond the boundaries of its fictional world. The Times Literary Supplement
• Postscript: The most entertaining way to learn something about Turing, albeit in fictionalized form, is to read Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, one of my favorite books. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Things I Didn’t Know
• Fictional situations are related anecdotally to life experiences. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
• I explore optimistic possibilities in fictional worlds to express my hope for good and transcendent outcomes. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kay Kenyon
• Documentaries can be as heavily scripted as fictional movies.
• I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families. A sad day for bananafish
• Originally published in 1971, the publication has at its heart what purports to be the yearbook of the fictional C. Estes Kefauver Memorial High School in tragically woebegone Dacron, Ohio.