Sentence examples for as a fictional device from inspiring English sources

I completely respect time travel as a fictional device.

I have to say that I wish the plot had gone another way: not that this particular kind of violence could never happen in real life (it all too obviously could, and does), but as a fictional device in a novel about a Jew in Germany, it is just a little too predictable, a little too pat.

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

"Asimov's laws of robotics were, and remain, a fictional device" says Prof Alan Winfield from the University of the West of England.

The actual name is reportedly an homage to the Star Trek PADD, a fictional device very similar in appearance to the iPad.

It causes the Space Core – a fictional device from Valve's video game Portal 2 – to fall from the sky and land in a burnt-out house near Whiterun.

Although far rarer than their prank cousins, exploding cigars used as a means to kill or attempt to kill targets in real life has been claimed, and is well represented as a fictional plot device.

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.

These works are very carefully researched; sources and "justifications" (as the French call them) are scrupulously set forth in notes, appendixes, bibliographies; inference and conjecture, when used, are duly labeled as such; no fictional devices or manipulations of material are permitted, and the life is generally developed in straight chronological order.

A fictional band is a dangerous thing in a book, as is a fictional head of state or movie star.

The Pokédex is a fictional electronic device featured in the Pokémon video game and anime series.