Sentence examples for fictional achievement from inspiring English sources

Despite cricket's seeming irrelevance to America, the game makes his exquisitely written novel "Netherland" (Pantheon; $23.95) a large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read.

After he had written himself into something of a self-referential corner, his next great advance coincided with anger and depression and mortal fears he left behind with Bloom – expressed in the triumphant howl of Sabbath's Theater in 1995, and the extraordinary trilogy of novels beginning with American Pastoral that were the major fictional achievement of the last years of the 20th century.

Perhaps his defining fictional achievement, the projected seven-novel series "Seven Dreams," aspires to frame a "Symbolic History" of North America, built around the clash of indigenous cultures and Europeans, going back to the Norse.

To experience again those awkward, joyous ambitions in a fictional work so consummately the achievement of them was, for me, a complicated, rueful pleasure.

Susan Sontag considered her fictional works her most important achievements, but it was her passionate, polemical essays of the nineteen-sixties and nineteen-seventies that made her famous as a public intellectual.

This fictional picture of hard work and scientific achievement balanced with family life yes, Joanne and Jim are fictional would be most unrealistic if they were placed in the United Kingdom.

Hence the fictional protagonist, Jay Jackson: all of Johnson's achievements, none of those personality traits.

This makes her sequence of "autobiographical" stories (which feature Porter's fictional alter-ego, Miranda) even more remarkable an achievement, because they are not drawn from life as they appear to be.

The documentary achievement of his film is greater than the sum of its fictional parts.

But "timeless" may be a more apt descriptor: The film is a loose adaptation of 1942's Casablanca, one of cinema's crowning achievements, and it swaps the very real Second World War for a fictional one. .

But "timeless" may be a more apt descriptor: The film is a loose adaptation of 1942's Casablanca, one of cinema's crowning achievements, and it swaps the very real Second World War for a fictional one.