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.
As Butler's fictional author of the Book of the Machines notes, ‘I cannot think it will ever be safe to repose much trust in the moral sense of any machine.’
His forte lay in articulating authentic emotion, because most of his fictional writing was structured around intensely felt personal experiences.
Most fictional time machines disappear in one time and reappear in another, but real time machines use the strange effects of relativity on time and space. Times, Sunday Times
All product names are either registered trademarks of the respective companies or fictional entities, work it out yourself!
Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England. TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
Nostalgia is a collective, fictionalised and romanticised view of the past, no?
Even if these people are the fictional creations of a playwright, you feel that you know them at the end of a good play.
Austen's fictional circulating library, Clarke's, in Meryton may have doubled as a bookshop and stationer's, like the business of Thomas Wilson in Bromley, a market town ten miles from London. What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?
With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s. Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family
It must be vexing to find oneself becoming a fictional character in old age. Times, Sunday Times
Like all histories and memories, the history of the self is always orchestrated from fragments of information, both factual and fictional, into a conceptual matrix that re-presents truth or reality.
This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier. The Girl Can't Help It
No fictional account of human humiliation and shame can capture the frightening banality of the people's treatment at these checkpoints.
And speaking of science, the story uses a fair amount of real, present-day science which is delineated from the fictional in an enlightening afterward. REVIEW: Twistor by John Cramer
Day takes a fictional look at a wide-ranging Japanese exobiologist...in space. Archive 2010-07-01
The lives of fictional private detectives tend to be action-packed, dangerous and full of incident.
Space themes are not confined to futuristic fictional series on television, although these are by far the best known and the greatest revenue generators.
Mr. Eschenbach's bald head, small frame and omnipresent Nehru jackets may remind movie fans of Ian Fleming's fictional villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld—at least as embodied by the actor Donald Pleasence in "You Only Live Twice. Restoring the National's Glory
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, which came out in 1996 having originally been published in Seth's comic series, Palookaville, follows the artist's search for an obscure (fictional) cartoonist named Kalo; Wimbledon Green (2005) tells the story of "the world's greatest comic book collector". George Sprott by Seth
Oh heavens above how dare they create a parallel in a satire between real life and their fictional world!
That's because the play is about a neurochemist named Roland Welby who is doing research on a fictional drug called Zeropinealphrine which, it seems, could radically accelerate human evolution.
The ads display black and white photos of the party's Legco candidates taken from a video portraying its members in a similar vein to the fictional presidential cabinet in the TV series.
Some of the pieces seemed autobiographical, others were clearly completely fictional, but there was a lot more focus on emotion, memory, and poetic language (example: "the blue sky hanging in acres above the yellow leaves") than I have in my own work or am used to seeing in SF. Hotlips writing workshop
The fictional Montecito is a high-class casino and hotel in the heart of Vegas.
Add to that the fact he's cool, suave and a great secret agent and there really are few fictional characters with such enduring appeal. The Sun
Malvolio: If a “zeebow” really does mean a tetsubo — and not, as I first thought, a zebu — that would mean the good people of Massachusetts have illegalized a fictional weapon, legendarily wielded by trolls. The Volokh Conspiracy » What is a zoobow?
Exploiting the fictionality of what is real is a seam of gold that literature will continue to mine in the next few years, I think. Last Reviews of 2008 « Tales from the Reading Room
The pair don wigs and dresses as different members of a fictional clan. The Sun
It limits the damage done by a story by forcing its audience to realize its fictionality at almost every moment.
His new film is similarly tricksy: in the voiceover, it spins a fictional catastrophe that recalls Cyprus' conflicted past over honeyed footage of blue seas, rustic beehives and golden fields that wouldn't look out of place on a posh holiday programme. This week's new exhibitions
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."
Is the Leonard-Wallace link just another example of Mr. Eugenides playing with fashionable ideas about reality and fictionality? Sense & Semiotics
In that context I feel like it isn't the established word factitious, but rather a new one meaning "half-factual, half-fictional". Languagehat.com: FACTITIOUS.
It is drama featuring fictional characters.
Recall the fictional judge objecting to splitting in court, in one of the Rumpole stories; he used an accusative in a gerund object, even for a pronoun,
Le Pont de l'Arc-en-ciel = The Rainbow Bridge (fictional place over which animals go after death); le petit animal à moustaches = the little whiskered animal (the cat); l'animalité (f) = animality; le partage (m) = sharing. Guetter - French Word-A-Day
y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such. Cherie puts her M.A. to marginally good use
Add to that the fact he's cool, suave and a great secret agent and there really are few fictional characters with such enduring appeal. The Sun
Since 2008 and the first Iron Man, Marvel has been meticulously laying the groundwork for its mammoth team-up pic The Avengers, due to hit theaters next summer, and with each new franchise, the've also expanded the realms of possibility for their fictional universe, mirroring the many facets of imagination in their four-color kin. Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Captain America: The First Avengers
Unsinkabillity became the leading feature of the Titanic's short life only after it hit the bottom, and the fictionalists and symbolists took over.
The character of Julian Adie is based on Lawrence Durrell, although the author is quick to point out that the story she creates is entirely fictional. Songs of Blue and Gold « Tales from the Reading Room
Philosophical colloquies can be presented in their own right or embedded in historical or fictional narratives. The Times Literary Supplement
When writers and producers are faced with handling a real life death, their often mirror reality by writing the death into the fictional plot line.
What lifted the book above the level of conventional historical fiction were its regular metafictional digressions. The Times Literary Supplement
He seduces us easily with the mythology of their marriage, its collaborative fictional invention.
As much as I love fictional private eyes, Laura Lippman's In Big Trouble, featuring 30-ish rookie gumshoe Tess Monaghan, is definitely not my type of book. In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman: Book summary
It's as if Shakespeare is returning to the themes of the first quadrilogy, but fictionally this time, and perhaps with a perspective of the reign of King James rather than Queen Elizabeth. March Books 8) Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
The fictional Cid, embodying the ideal Castilian, captured the popular imagination of generations.
Now imagine how our fictional family's activities are affected by heritage legislation.
The fictional town in which the action takes place is unexciting. Times, Sunday Times
One has the sense of an actual, as opposed to a fictional, narrator forced to convey a plethora of background information about his characters, at the expense of descriptive detail and incident.
What follows is offered as a tentative approach, but one that has already proved useful to teachers. 1 Fictional narrative.
Yet it takes a fictional account of a spurious global warming scenario on celluloid to get Joe Soap talking about it.
The pair don wigs and dresses as different members of a fictional clan. The Sun
(Perhaps in alluding to the expression of "consciousness," Smith is actually referring to the creation of consciousness in fictional characters, the pursuit of "psychological realism," but this is not how I read the passage in question.) Style in Fiction
Iris Murdoch, who combines a prolific output with a consistently high level of fictional achievement, is universally acknowledged as one of the most important novelists in postwar Britain.
Little Caesar and Scarface were based on the life of Al Capone, and The Public Enemy told a fictionalized account of the life of Hymie Weiss, the leader of a major Jewish gang of the 1920s. A Renegade History of the United States
The narrative featured a fictional microbrewer named Dave, whose special hops were delayed from his supplier, threatening to keep him out of an important beer competition. Avoiding the Road to PowerPoint Hell
Another is that we're seeing some kind of metafictional "author/writing" gambit, although that's more Morrisonian than Waidian, and we're already seeing hints of that in the outer-space sequence, with Buddy talking about how the universe likes him. Week 32: Holiday Charm
But in projecting our lives into a fictional world, we can work out on paper the issues that affect us. WWYMCD? « Write Anything
The names of the shops are entirely fictional.
Still, the movie fails to answer the big pirate question: Why are fictional pirates always burying their treasure?
In the 'rules' of the fictional universe where FTL is possible, that was a brilliant strategy in the fight and unreal in its portrayal on the screen. Battlestar Galactica: Razor - To Watch Or Not?
No beverage, no less worse, fictionalization being imbalance. Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
So in your fictional world, just say the drug was tested on all these average pregnant women, but was going to be sold at a superhigh price. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Fox’s Review Forum
The stories that follow are all fictionalized accounts of my life in the suburbs.
There are times when I regret the decision to hide in plain sight, fictionalizing accounts of my activities in the pages of The Wraith Magazine so that any reports of a silver masked figure seen lurking in the streets of Recondito will be written off as an overimaginative reader with more costuming skill than sense. Masked
The fictional plot centred around the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs despised by the police for causing havoc in the neighbourhood.
As in Blake, Dick's fictional cosmogenies draw from a wide range of sources.
The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject.
He points out some obvious arguments, it's the parents fault for not supervising their kids, his anecdotes are fictional, they are only words after all.
They can either be fictional, someone you know right now, or someone that you knew a long time ago.
The story concerns a wealthy countess who creates a fictional fianc e to avoid the fellows hitting on her.
And on the far end of the tail are people like David Friedman , a New York photographer who cooks up three or four witty ideas a year—like his series of T-shirts adorned with fictional corporate logos that are blurrily "pixelated," as if on reality TV—and makes just enough money to cover his hosting fees, plus a bit of pocket change. Clive Thompson on How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free
We are using a fictional situation but the people will see the obvious connection. The Sun
A triffid is a highly venomous fictional plant species. ... A Triffid Is Winging Its Way from New Zealand
Philip becomes aware of the process through which we invent our own identities based on the fictional paradigms at our disposal.
The wooden chalet perched on top of cliffs in the fictional seaside town was the murder scene in the first series and featured prominently in the second. Times, Sunday Times
Far from the fictional underpinnings of the verb "bork," Judge Sotomayor has been the victim of journalistic malpractice. Karl Frisch: Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"
A more recent fictional character with swinging villainous tendencies is Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series. The Opposing Force « Write Anything
Sometimes it is interesting for a book to include metafictional acknowledgement of the limits of expresssion. The Times Literary Supplement
She has created an intriguing story by skillfully interweaving fictional and historical events.
For film producers, the past is merely a starting point, the foundation on which to build a fictional story.
But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man. Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'
Whilst it could be argued that it is po-faced to talk about truth in the biography of a fictional character, the counter-argument is that the constant toying with fiction and fact is ultimately frustrating.
By the way: the invitation to this party says that I should come dressed as a fictional character.
But, if you like a writer who can weave a fictional story out of a few key words and someone with a lot of life experience who writes about family issues and problems we can all relate to, Becca is the blogger for you. 2008 August « Becca’s Byline
Allegations are made anonymously and chatroom contributors hide behind fictional names. Times, Sunday Times
Why should it be the obligation of the viewer to distinguish a fictional portrayal from a real-life oasis of urban calm? Times, Sunday Times
The writing of Across the River and into the Trees (or Across the Street and into the Grill as E.B. White retitled it) drew on his wartime experiences and seemed to merge his exaggerations with his fictional hero to the point of self-parody.
Set in the late 18th century, the film follows our very fictionalized brothers, played by Matt Damon and Heath Ledger.
The precise disposition, organisation and arrangement of these two discourses constitutes the basic fabric of Nizan's fictional technique.
What follows is a fictional account of the ideal way I would like to die.
The real world is composed of stories, of fictions, of narrative, and ultimately of language in the same way that the fictional world of a novel is constructed.
'Shakespeare in Love' (1998) The Earl of Oxford may have written this too, but Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard got screen credit for what is, by unanimous agreement among Shakespearean scholars, a totally fictional account of how a Bard with writer's block sought help from a shrink (who timed patients' sessions with an hourglass) and churned out "Romeo and Juliet" only after discovering his muse in a dishy, brainy aristocrat named Lady Viola. 'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders
The allure of Dulli's own fictional (?) dark world is most magnetic not in his lyrics but rather in his gorgeous music which is fed, made more beautiful even, by the tease of cheap thrills, unquenched desires, and Catholic guilt.
Nor would abstractionism face the technical challenges that fictionalism faces, since all the merely possible worlds would in fact exist; there would be no problem of switching back and forth between fictional and literal discourse. Modal Fictionalism
Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalization of a true event, taking off from a brilliant conceit, that the director of a vampire film would hire a real vampire to play the leading role.
In 30 Rock's universe, NBC parent General Electric is a cog in the fictional Sheinhardt Wig Co., as equally far-fetched an owner as NBC's real one. Critics, Emmys love '30 Rock'; when will the viewers?
Nationalistic thugs who double as acrobats from the fictional Balkan country of Karonia, The Fearsome Foot-Fighters are masters of savate, a French form of kickboxing.
The best corollary I can find to myself is a fictional television alien!
The most tiresome tales are those that are the most self-consciously metafictional. The Times Literary Supplement
His whole conversation on snugness revolves around fictional children who hide or sleep in snug places within the following books: The Wind in the Willows, Heidi, The Secret Garden, and the stories of Beatrix Potter. Feeling Like a Kid (copy)
Her explicit accounts of her sexual journey developed into this fictionalised memoir.
Most fictional detectives would not last long in a modern crime scene. Times, Sunday Times
The great detective's fictionality is celebrated from the very start. Times, Sunday Times
Create a specific brief for an article and then write it, or make up a fictional company and write copy for their website.
First, it is in setting up such a wonderfully constructed and complex mesh of relationships among the inhabitants of his fictional village, and then never introducing conflict between them.
This actual moth is much larger than the sixteenth of an inch attributed to the fictional insect.
The motivating fictional element is a subversive or ambiguous move.
It's about four guys that he kind of fantasized and fictionalized. Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
This is a fictional story, made up to show how thew legal system use and should work. Jammie Thomas: facing the RIAA alone
The precise disposition, organisation and arrangement of these two discourses constitutes the basic fabric of Nizan's fictional technique.
It is a fictional account of the real events which catapulted the women to stardom but charts the price they had to pay when they were subjected to the glare of the world's media.
In this on-rails shoot-em-up you take on the role of Mack, a famed recyclist from the fictional Plant 530. DS-x2 headlines
Sometimes, it seems, fictional exchange gains were booked on what really were simply loans, a phenomenon criticized by some casuists as “dry exchange” or cambio secco. Making Money the Medici Way-And Spending It the Modern Way
While all three novellas center on alienated and deracinated people -- doubters, outcasts, the detritus of biblical stories -- they are slight and unmemorable as fictional characters.
George Tsypin's sets, Kyle Cooper's digital projections and Eiko Ishioka's costumes have been melded into an exquisitely exact stage equivalent of the sharp-angled, high-contrast drawing style of the Marvel comic books in which Peter Parker and his web-spinning alter ego first came to fictional life. Spidey's Green Glimmer of Hope
Imputing an end to an action is of a fictional nature in the sense that it is not free from the subjective valuation that conditions the researcher's thematization of a certain subject matter out of “an infinite multiplicity of successively and coexistently emerging and disappearing events” [Weber 1904/1949, Asthmatic
And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Whatever his successes with the fictional Tom Brown, Scud East and generations of real English schoolboys who followed them, Thomas Arnold thought he had failed with Flashman who lived unregenerate to the last.
This stupid movie would have buried itself even without her fictional falderal influence.
The dramas have won thousands of devotees in Afghanistan who enjoy the escapist world of the fictional Bombay rich. Times, Sunday Times
But why create a fictional romance in a historical epic and then do very little to make viewers care anything about that story?
It then suddenly becomes an underwater fantasy with a strong metafictional overtone. More stories : Bev Vincent
The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful/sloppy metafictional games.
As the ideograph system monitored solely by the writer, fictional craft has managed to retain its marked features in the popular culture market.
He is quite happy to be compared to Mary Shelley's fictional character, Frankenstein.
But maybe we can understand Bloom's florin as a fictional revenant if not an historical precedent.
Back in the University Cafe, the Verrecchia family is not entirely convinced the fictional Oyster Cafe has captured the zeitgeist.
“The most entertaining way to learn something about Turing, albeit in fictionalized form, is [...] “ Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Things I Didn’t Know
It's perhaps a limitation of my creativity, but I think one of the disadvantages is that rarely can our fictional efforts improve upon the real world mythology that cultures have come up with collectively. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
Fictional stories and dreams have precisely the same effect; veracity does not seem to be a central component.
It could be interesting, but at what point do we wonder if Hoover's life will be completely fictionalized to fit the crossdresser/gay mold? Milk Writer Dustin Lance Black Penning J. Edgar Hoover Biopic? | /Film
It gives the story a slight metafictional spin, bouncing between blatant product placement and mockumentary.
The first episode focuses on a fictional Army unit as soldiers arrive in Iraq for their first tour of duty.
Brenda Cooper talks about Artificial Intelligence in her first Futurismic column: "The futurist in me now believes AI will be with us in a thousand small ways - as taken for granted as always-on email or mobile music - long before we approach most of the fictional treatments of AI. SF Tidbits for 6/5/09
Both movies have a big-name comedian dressed up as a fictional creature.
Blanchot also draws heavily from Franz Kafka, and his fictional work (like his theoretical work) is shot through with an engagement with Kafka's writing.
We are using a fictional situation but the people will see the obvious connection. The Sun
Wrong's excellent book is peopled by the kind of characters no fictional framing could ever conceive.
But even then, the claim to ethnic identity was more often fictional.
My primary reservation about using the PCL-R in the criminal justice system is that research suggests its personality component and the label "psychopath" are highly stigmatizing, evoking images of fictional villains like Hannibal Lecter as well as real-world serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. NPR Topics: News
Poor Griet is burdened by more than having to scrub the Vermeer family smalls in this fictional biography of a painting.
As I enjoyed the quasi-fictional depiction of President Nixon's trip to China at the Metropolitan Opera, my mind wandered as to whether his excursion to foreign territory and his interest in accelerating America's ties with Asia also catalyzed his passivity towards the tumultuous transformations in his own country; just as President Clinton's premature overtures to China for expansive trade catalyzed income inequality at home in hopes of futural prosperity fueled by the prospects of global demand for American products from a growing and wealthier global consumer. Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed
Illustrated fictional storybooks can play a key supportive role in developing young children's awareness of and aesthetic response to the environment.
Unlike the fictional Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk had, at least initially, chosen his desert island over his privateer galley.
You can choose your favorite reason for why these artificial, made-for-TV, hothouse relationships usually collapse: because they're no more than the fictional creations of overeager, oversexed imaginations; or because, thanks to all those cameras, the chosen one has now had a chance to see just how eager the chooser was, and with how many other candidates. Critic's Corner Monday
Over these buns is a fictional hair ornament or diadem that covers them with ribbon that streams from each. Screenwriter Justin Marks Explains Street Fighter Adaptation « FirstShowing.net
More than three dozen of these notes purport to document various fictional characters Morris scatters through his text.
Illustrations for The Monkey Wrench Gang, a 1986 book about a fictional group of eco-warriors, appear alongside autobiographical strips done for The New Yorker.
In the same way traditional literature possesses archetypes, modern fictional works can hold these recurring images of universal significance as well.
Gissing used his fictional alter ego to attack Victorian morals.
It was only later that the aesthetic dimension of literary study became emphasized, with an accompanying concentration on the fictional genres.
The antihero is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart the entire concept came from the initials, 'F.U.' played by Ian Richardson. Sony Sets The Lords Day As Clancy-esque Thriller With Franchise Potential | /Film
New York is a bit fictional anyway, so to combine it with the exiles from the Land of Fable seems almost obvious once it has been done. Bits and pieces
This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalised autobiography.
Another method is the autobiographical method where you project your own experiences into the fictional character, though this is not necessarily one you should use most. NaNoWriMo Workshop – Character « Write Anything
When people invest in fictional characters, eventual closure is one of the returns they will demand on that investment. Archive 2010-03-01
Timothy Fortune isn't your stereotypic fictional missionary, all dead dogma and dammed-up desire, but a genuinely good man for whom the discovery of love and the discovery of his utter aloneness come with a shock any of us can share. A letter from the editor on Sylvia Townsend Warner
I like to read about ships between fictional characters.
It would have been nice to know if there really was such a thing in the areas that Britain colonized or if it was merely a fictional contrivance of the writer.
Each group is named after a fictional character like Mickey Mouse.
Both factual and fictional texts contribute to our knowledge of risks surrounding cellphone use as a biohazard that is a threat to individual bodies and to the social body.
Fiction might best be conceived in this scenario as a byproduct of our drive to sustain the link that gives us confidence in confession's non-fictionality, or rather, as a curious outgrowth of the discursive relationship between confessant and confessor.
I wish that he had made the difficult decision to live within his budget instead of insisting that a fictional future of bounteous budgets was coming again. Griffin Uses Hand Picked Media Opportunity to Warn of Layoffs - NASA Watch
I was a little nervous, after reading Twilight, that there was a chance I could be stepping into a fictional world of brooding teens and angst-ridden vampires. Book Review: "Strange Angels" by Lili St. Crow
While Rice justifies her decision by saying the book will have a definite Christian framework and a focus on the theme of redemption, she admits that the future chronicle will once again involve the character Lestat and a fictional organization known as the Talamaska that is responsible for investigating the supernatural. Queen of the Damned I Could Use Another Few Bucks
The more disturbing aspect of this story is the amount of angsty torture they're putting their fictional selves through.
Even if these people are the fictional creations of a playwright, you feel that you know them at the end of a good play.
Add to that the fact he's cool, suave and a great secret agent and there really are few fictional characters with such enduring appeal. The Sun
Representation, the art of transferring reality to the page, means re-presenting the real in its uncanny fictional form, in a way that makes it easy for us to forget we are reading black and white markings on a sheet of woodchip and not in fact looking through a hidden window onto the world. American Wife « Tales from the Reading Room
The lives of fictional private detectives tend to be action-packed, dangerous and full of incident.
If we can see star travel, even in a fictional format, it plays into thresholding on a cultural level. MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
These, together with "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. AS SEEN ON TV: J.R.R. TOLKIEN
A certain kind of fictionalist might claim that the real meaning of “Stealing is wrong” should be rendered in the cohortative mood (which in English is not grammatically distinguished from imperative): “Let's pretend that stealing is wrong.” Moral Anti-Realism
Quite frankly, the explanations from natural historians, folklorists and fossil experts are as strange as Kipling's fictional accounts.
Most of us, I think, read whodunits for the pleasure of following a ratiocinative process, not to be left wondering which fictional character did what to whom; the real world offers far more interesting imponderables than that. Touch of Evil
Adlerians use the term fictional finalism to refer to an imagined central goal that guides a person’s behavior. Individual Psychology versus Existential Psychology: A Typology Approach
Drift is a 3D Space Action-Simulation game set in a fictional world.
They're basically just scamming people with this fictional concert.
On Saturday, he read at least two extended fictional pieces, one from the point of view of a depressed fox looking to carry out his own suicide as road kill, and another as an amnestic defender of the blind. Funny HA HA
The resulting fictionalised account is a faithful portrait of a musical genius, drunken lout, spiritual healer, liar and clown.
It is also a fictional evocation of a long-vanished age in which draughtsmen and painters were employed by country-house owners in England to draw or paint their estates, their property, their houses and gardens.
Fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes is credited with first realising the value of soil in criminal investigations.
Cody was, as later observers noted, authenticating for future stage audiences the dramatic but heretofore fictional attire of a plainsman.
Although the fictional Inspector Morse freely wanders the cloisters, technically police can not enter college grounds without permission from the master.
A 16-year-old boy comes of age when he becomes a batboy for a fictional baseball team.
The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful / sloppy metafictional games.
Her fictional worlds, like those of her best-selling coevals Wally Lamb and Khaled Hosseini, are marked by trauma, persecution and suffering, relieved only intermittently by freakish moments of well-being. The Reigning Queen of Victim Lit

How To Use Fictional In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):