Sentence examples for fictional exercise from inspiring English sources
My novel became not so much a fictional exercise as a process of discovery.
Equally valuable are new games which, though fictional, exercise the altruistic rather than enterprising, violent, or distraction-seeking tendencies of gamers.
These are essentially fictional exercises in the far away and long ago, somewhat in the manner of Mary Renault's "The King Must Die" and her other re-creations of the classic world.
I'm probably making this sound too much like some kind of abstract, meta-fictional exercise when in fact I'm talking about something intensely lived: how each of us is constantly striving to reorganize mere chronology into some meaningful pattern, to narrate our pasts in a way that makes a future thinkable.
Eco is much indebted to Jorge Luis Borges, and this is the sort of exercise – a fictional version of a true story of a fake which had a powerful effect on the real world – that the Argentine writer would have turned into a dizzying, flawlessly executed five-page short story.
Golding talks of kinaesthesia, the capacity for sympathetic identification with someone else's bodily movements; there is a sense in which The Inheritors seems like an exercise in fictional kinaesthesia, with its author trying to slip not just into a Neanderthal skin, but also into one of those unimaginable minds.
We will begin by studying a selection of stories that demonstrate the many techniques writers use to create fictional worlds; we'll use these stories as models for writing exercises and short assignments, leading to a full story draft.
We have seen outright hoaxes, possible hoaxes, movies in which real people play fictional versions of themselves, exercises in trompe l'oeil navel gazing and ruthless self-examination.
The two steps forward, one step back progression of the Wu's acculturation may be true to the actual experiences of countless naïve, non-native English speakers, but it feels here more like a monastic meditation or a ritual breathing exercise than a fictional documentary.
At New York Institute of Technology, faculty at our medical and health professions schools created Evelyn as a fictional case for a special exercise on inter-professional education.
