Sentence examples for fictional basis from inspiring English sources

These Spartans participate in war games on the starship Infinity, which forms the fictional basis for Halo 4s multiplayer.

And even the characters who are fictional have some basis in reality: Henry, a slave who loves Hemings, is a composite of two young men who were at Monticello, Ms. Andrews said.

Updike did avoid making Martha explicitly the basis for fictional characters, thereby denying her a form of immortality granted to Mary.

Journalism was to remain a passion throughout his life: time and again his fictional stories have their basis in tales he heard as a young journalist, as he explains for example in the introduction to the 1994 novel Of Love and Other Demons.

The lives of these real people are the basis of fictional characters refashioned according to Zachary's whims.

The story of Umbrella, a global pharmaceutical company that secretly develops lethal pathogens, took players' existing, real-world fears and used them as the basis for fictional horror.

The story of Umbrella, a global pharmaceutical company that secretly develops lethal pathogens, it took players' existing, real-world fears and used them as the basis for fictional horror.

It's easy to imagine how a novelist might use a real person as a basis for a fictional character.

For all of these reasons, the developers of Grand Theft Auto V — the latest iteration of the popular "open world" video-game series — chose L.A. County as the basis for the fictional setting of Los Santos.

Boal used his experiences as the basis of a fictional drama based on real events.

We talked through possibly using them as a basis for a fictional series of graphic novels.