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Here are two possible scenarios in which you could use this phrase: 1) In a book review: "The novel was highly engaging and well-written, with richly developed characters and a compelling plot that kept me guessing until the very end. However, I did have some reservations about the author's use of historical events - it felt a bit too fictional about certain aspects of the story." 2) In a discussion about creative writing: "When crafting a work of fiction, it's important to strike a balance between being realistic and being too fictional about certain elements. The story should be believable, but also allow for some artistic license."
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There is nothing fictional about this.
Some big players in Sides's account have nothing remotely fictional about them.
Here we're in Eckhausen, a (fictional) British army town near Hanover, though I'm assuming there's little fictional about the greyness, the slush, the chilblained fingers, the wartime ruins.
In Alexis Jenni's L'Art français de la guerre, a former captain of the French army recounted 18 years of French wars—starting with the disgrace of World War II and continuing into the dirty wars of French imperialist colonization in Indochina and Algeria, with all the savagery and torture that were their hallmark a story with little fictional about it besides its narrator.
The 'Hero of Haarlem' was an invented character in a broader book called The Silver Skates, but there is nothing fictional about the efforts brands are making to not only control this data, but also how to manage it.
Her Altadena is as perfectly crafted and fully alive as Lake Wobegon -- although there's nothing fictional about Frost's reminiscences -- and her mellifluous voice brings to mind the great radio stars of yore.
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When outrageous opinions were confined to newspaper print there was something quasi-fictional about the enterprise – the writer with their disorienting polemic was like a gratuitous cartoon character, vocalising things none of us would dare say in real life because they didn't quite exist in real life.
Because fictional questions about torture's efficacy obscure real questions about its criminality.
If you like reading slightly trashy, fictional books about strong girls and women, read a book about modern feminism.
It is not so much a documentary as a fictional film about the making of a documentary, or perhaps a documentary about the making of a fictional film about the making of a documentary.
Instead, it raises the more interesting question of how much a fictional story about a fictional self can shed, and still remain a story about a vivid self.
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