Sentence examples for fiction provided from inspiring English sources

Fiction provided the means to translate her theatrical peculiarities into a larger sympathy: "my life's all in the novels".

In this, the sadness was often resolved, so that fiction provided psychic "healing" for him, to use the therapeutic language of today.

This was the basis of the brief scenario that Truffaut, a fellow admirer of film noir and série noire pulp fiction, provided for Breathless.

The novel - at its best - is driven by ideas, by the realisation that the most important ideas can only be explained and particularised through the fiction provided by the medium of novel.

If his novelistic imagining of totalitarian horror now looks a bit dated, it is partly because his fiction provided the dusty epitaph on a dustier tombstone that he himself helped to carve; and, anyway, his coinages, like "doublethink" and "Newspeak" and "Big Brother," now live an unexpectedly acute second life in the supposedly free West.

Modern science fiction provided Carroll with a more recent set of narratives to play with, because plots in which characters discovered strange new civilisations underground were becoming increasingly popular – hence Jules Verne's decision two years later to send his explorers journeying to the centre of the Earth.

This year's ample offerings in historical fiction provide the perfect summer escape.

His fiction provides a bracing corrective to American innocence about our image abroad.

Henríquez's fiction provides intense close-ups of young Panamanians whose lives are in enormous flux.

In his new book, Blue Light, he turns history into science fiction, providing us with an alternative account of the dawn of Aquarius.

Then, there's something that I think of as the space that a work of fiction provides the reader to feel emotionally and intellectually invested in the text.