Sentence examples for fictional approach from inspiring English sources

Dave Eggers, in the 2013 novel "The Circle," addressed his moment the South Bay in an age of high-tech fever using a purely fictional approach.

It was hatched at the Orchard Project, a theater retreat in the Catskills where company members began to build the Stella Burden myth and formulate the fictional Approach.

The fictional approach gave Oreskes and Conway free hand to talk about 2023's Year of Perpetual Summer, the Great Collapse of the ice sheets after 2073, and the coming fossil-fuel frenzy sparked by shale gas and melting Arctic ice, which makes matters worse by by opening vast areas to oil exploration.

At its best, this fictional approach is a way of employing a coherent filmic narrative to show the truth of a band, and has worked from The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night through Slade in Flame to Eminem's 8 Mile.

Hornby can do searing social commentary and feel-good humour as well as ever, but initially there's an emotional component missing: comic effect is achieved at the expense of psychological veracity, and even if this is a stylised fictional approach to self-destruction, we do need to empathise with these losers through the screen of their gallows humour.

The main benefit which a fictional approach to possible worlds offers is, of course, the advantage of using the language of possible worlds, without the stiff ontological cost of literal commitment to such worlds.

We'll end the term with recent fictional approaches to the city by writers of several nationalities.

Among the legacies of wartime film production was the reciprocal influence of the documentary and fictional approaches.

Theoretically there is no limit to the number available, since changing social patterns provide fresh subjects and fresh taxonomies, and new metaphysical and psychological doctrines may beget new fictional approaches to both content and technique.

Julia Raeside The last in what has been a fascinating series, an eye-opener into the real-life procedural process that makes the fictional TV approach to detective stories feel distinctly stale and stagey by comparison.Tonight, PCs Leanne Turner and Andy Parsons investigate an alleged assault on a 75-year-old man following a domestic dispute.

I prefer to approach "fictional" horror with a smirk because make-believe horror just doesn't scare me.