Sentence examples for Fictional device from inspiring English sources

Bacteriophage was no fictional device.

I completely respect time travel as a fictional device.

Now it's another fictional device that audiences aren't apt to buy.

What fictional device does the new Timex Internet Messenger watch mimic?

As well as being the record of Bunyan's dream, a well-known fictional device, it is also an archetypal tale – a quest, fraught with danger.

The "reset button" they have pushed to restore a working relationship after the damage done in the Bush era is not a fictional device.

Internationally this has been the year of the "hybrid documentary" – non-fiction films using fictional devices – spearheaded by the US filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer's shockingly confronting festival hit The Act of Killing.

THE self-enclosed world of the dramatic monologue is one of the greatest fictional devices.

The Times's policies prohibit falsifying a news account or using fictional devices in factual material.

Some readers will find this sendup of the author's own fictional devices immensely playful and entertaining.

These are then framed by other fictional devices: an introduction by a fictive editor (Prof. Albert J. Stewart) and a (fictional) postscript by (the real) Anna Freud.