fictive

How To Use fictive In A Sentence

• He described the excited states of the liquid by the motion of certain fictive particles called quasiparticles. Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 - Presentation Speech
• I've expanded on these thoughts on The Barking Dog ... and impelled more and to think that in The Kindly Ones, we are not reading anything close to 'realist historical fiction,' but something resembling a monstrous fable -- the darkest of tales from the brothers Grimm, not at all constructed as a representation of historical reality, but as an endlessly suggestive fictive parallel. Furies
• This is bad in realist terms because it warps the fictive universe: Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
• Whereas autobiography may present a fictive vantage point to reflect upon the past, a film or video diary provides ‘a series of discontinuous presents’ as P. Adams Sitney suggested.
• Reports on clinical findings are mixtures of facts, fabulations, and fictives so intermingled that one cannot tell where one begins and the other leaves off ’.
• The company's challenge here was to establish the proper place of "Sancho Panca," a light musical comedy (technically, an opéra-comique) about an episode in Cervantes's "Don Quixote" when the protagonist's beloved sidekick is set up, as a prank, as the governor of a fictive island. In performance: Opera Lafayette
• It is particularly critical of the celebrated "Autobiography of Malcolm X," now a staple of college reading lists, which was written with Alex Haley and which Mr. Marable described as "fictive. NYT > Home Page
• Beyond that their work deals with the capacity of the video medium to manipulate reality: the video's ostensibly objective documentary quality brings a fictive element in historiography to the fore.
• A propos de ton “incapacité” à imaginer des histoires fictives: je ne lis presque que de la science-fiction et je suis toujours admiratif devant le fait que quasiment chaque auteur de SF ne fait que décrire ses contemporains en transposant ça dans un monde futuriste/imaginaire/parralèle, etc. Writing Stories — Climb to the Stars
• In these cases, women had been able to exercise some degree of agency in determining where and/or next to whom they established field borders, with the result that they were farming among birth, affinal or fictive kin and construed their right to this land in collective rather than individual terms. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique