Sentence examples for fictional conflict from inspiring English sources

He is better able to convey moral irony by dramatizing a fictional conflict than by baldly stating his views.

By Richard Brody May 26, 2017 A list of war movies, including Ingmar Bergman's "Shame," about a fictional conflict.

This year, Bartlet was shown agonizing over whether to commit 10,000 American troops to an escalating, fictional conflict on the border shared by Russia, Kazakhstan and China.

Set in a convincing fictional conflict in the near future, the latest Ace Combat boasts significant atmosphere, and setting yourself loose in its crowded skies is surprisingly engrossing.

State of Wonder is passionate about nature – but Patchett has used a real jungle as a setting for a fictional conflict, and an imaginary set of dilemmas based around an invented ecosystem.

The date figures as a remarkable trope in Jean-Luc Godard's "In Praise of Love"—a film that features a fictional conflict within a family of former resistance fighters over an attempt by Steven Spielberg to buy and film their wartime experiences.

With Ghosts, the Call of Duty series, which once was set during World War II and then moved to fictional conflicts that evoked the ones in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Cold War, fully abandons even a tenuous grounding in the drama of real-world warfare.

While the Law & Order shows routinely draw on inspiration from real-life events in an approach the creators call "ripped from the headlines", Criminal Intent producers referred to this episode as "'pre-ripping' from the headlines", because the script usually took a real-life event (as the lonelygirl15 phenomenon) and added to it a fictional dramatic conflict (the kidnapping).

Attempting to dress up the fictional man/machine conflicts with images from contemporary political protest (The Million Machine March and the like) was not a good idea.

If too humanlike, they are of little use; if genuinely alien, they defy the fictional conventionalities of motive, conflict, and plot.

The dichotomy faced by Ravitch — between rationality and mysticism — is in some ways a fictional manifestation of the conflict between Jewish history and Jewish memory that Yerushalmi charted in "Zakhor".