Sentence examples for fictional departure from inspiring English sources
There is no wronged man in the fictional departure "A Hologram for the King" — instead our protagonist is Alan Clay, a 54-year-old American whose circumstances are because of his own choices, or bad luck, or a destiny he failed to see coming.
Now he did stage adventurous fictional departures from the local and the autobiographical, and produced novels about unfamiliar times and places.
Before their departure, the fictional Aminata is hired to record in the "Book of Negroes," an actual document (and the title of this novel when it was originally published in Canada), the names of emigrating blacks: "I liked... recording how people obtained their freedom, how old they were and where they had been born...
These and other departures from formal history do, indeed, belie "the fiction that fictional accounts lack historical value".
In this preceding play, a bullying Irish patriarch and his two sons immured in a high-rise London flat repeatedly replay a fictional version of the father's departure from Cork.
The novel represents a departure from Mr. Crichton's longtime fictional preoccupation with the moral and social ramifications of science and technology.
Jami Attenberg's fictional reconstruction of Mazie's life is a bold departure from how historical novels are usually written.
Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, the new series began with the departure of Ben Miller as the main character and arrival of My Family's Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman.
The focus is the fictional town of Maplewood in upstate New York, three years after the Sudden Departure has occurred.
In a departure from his work to that point, which typically followed wholly fictional characters in present-day contexts, the film centres on the famous 19th-century partnership of light-opera librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan; it earned him another Oscar screenplay nomination.
Some loyalists feared that such a radical departure might alienate the typical Jaguar owner (known inside the company as the fictional "Mrs. Schwartz on Long Island").
