Sentence examples for fictional anecdotes from inspiring English sources

With his fourth book, "Business at 16," Mr. Bagchi hopes to get teenagers interested in business, partly by using fictional anecdotes, including boy-meets-girl stories.

Five months of the journey are described in exquisite prose that combines intimate details of his journey with historical background, fictional anecdotes, literary allusions, and his own emotional responses, often expressed in haiku.

It is only in the chapter about Washington's religious beliefs that Mr. Lengel examines assorted myths, anecdotes and images in a methodical — and persuasive — fashion, informing the reader precisely of what is known, what's been invented or altered, and how assorted fictional anecdotes have lodged themselves in the collective imagination.

I am not only referring to debates on Catiline and civil liberties, but also to the lurid, largely fictional, anecdotes of Roman emperors that have framed our own views of political corruption and excess (where does autocratic excess end and a reign of terror begin?), or the justifications, bad and good, for imperial expansion and military intervention.

Comedienne Amy Poehler debuts on the Celeb 100 this year thanks to the continued success of NBC's Parks & Recreation and a million-dollar book deal with publisher It Books for what's described as an "illustrated, nonlinear diary full of humor and honesty and brimming with true stories, fictional anecdotes and life lessons".

"I enjoyed mixing facts and fantasy with my opinions, true stories, invented anecdotes and fictional characters," he told the wine blogger Tom Wark in 2009.

But while that was a non- fictional mix of personal anecdotes, recipes, relationship advice and fashion tips aimed at middle-aged women, the eight interlocking stories in When It Happens To You resonate much closer to her heart and her intellectual sensibilities.

These one- to two-page stories mix purely fictional tales with borrowed anecdotes and quotes from newspaper headlines and the lives of such disparate figures as Franz Kafka, Ted Kaczynski, and OJ Simpson.

(2013) included piquantly detailed anecdotes from his travels interspersed with fictional vignettes.

Here are a few of our favourite Elvis homages, including fictional portrayals, impersonators – and one that's just an anecdote about the King.

The anecdotes become reflections, and the reflections have their own peculiar fictional life because we sense something beyond them, something we're not being told because Hernández doesn't know it, or doesn't want to know it.