Sentence examples for as a fictive from inspiring English sources

As such, literary critic Himelblau states that "the novel does not develop the figure of the President as a fictive personage, does not follow the President through a series of actions or diegetic complications that lead to psychological-existential changes or transformations of his character".

The colonial image of what constituted "Australia" at the onset of white invasion was as much of a fictive derivation as Stubbs' interpretations of Sydney Parkinson's own culturally skewed sketches of Australian fauna.

This devotion to respectability is so deep that it has driven some to believe that Black bodies are to be offered up as sacrifices to a fictive white supremacist, Old Testament God.

But, in truth, Dolezal has been dressed precisely as we all are, in a fictive garb of race whose determinations are as arbitrary as they are damaging.

Dolezal's actions attracted plenty of scorn, but I have some sympathy with her, and I think The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb summed it up best when he wrote that she "has been dressed precisely as we all are, in a fictive garb of race whose determinations are as arbitrary as they are damaging.

Malevich's apparent unconsciousness of this fact indicates that he clung to the convention of the canvas as a window on a fictive reality.

This secret hand may in the coming days cover up some things while pushing forward a fictive scenario as the reality.

This substructure was used for the simulation as different sampling areas for a fictive taxonomic study.

The low power of the visual method is obvious when a fictive asexual taxon that may be as ancient as sexual reproduction itself (i.e. 1.2 billion years [ 18]) is plotted to a published cumulative frequency distribution curve.

"A fictive universe which is as coherent, and as closed in on itself, as the world of Balzac".

Rockwell's pictures are literal-minded and sentimental, sure, but they constitute as accurate a graph as we have of what being American — a fictive condition, always — could feel like in the twentieth century.