Sentence examples for fictional experiments from inspiring English sources

His early fictional experiments with naturalism and historical fiction were not particularly auspicious, and, as Meyers remarks, "very few authors have ever achieved success after writing so many poor books".

With its larger-than-life sex-changing, time-travelling protagonist, Orlando is one of Virginia Woolf's fictional experiments that perhaps offers the most potential as a stage work.

Fox David Garnettt, Lady into Fox In 1922, a decade after Kafka's Metamorphosis, the ancient terror of a sudden species-change inspired one of the Bloomsbury Group's most powerful fictional experiments.

In addition students are required to answer questions involving simple statistical analysis and interpretation of data generated from the fictional experiments.

But it leaves one with the nagging sense that a traumatized young animal's experience eludes straightforward English, and that a more radical fictional experiment would be necessary to truly capture the mysteries of elephant consciousness.

The fictional experiment had mixed results, but the programme stirred debate with viewers.

Those books were almost ostentatiously experimental, and the early nineteen-seventies was a time for fictional experiment.

Out of this I constructed a fictional experiment that was much closer to reality than if they had sent me to the islands with a tape recorder and a camera". The novel (which I translated with Amanda Hopkinson) was his only work published in Britain, by Serpent's Tail in 2007, which gave it the title Malvinas Requiem, rather than its literal translation, The Armadillos.

This issue includes reflections on the nature of science fiction, on the epistemology of science fictional thought experiments, on our possible moral and social relationships with future intelligent beings, on the prospects of human or post-human self-transformation, and on time travel.

We found that 3- to 5- year-old children (n=252) shared more with kin and friends than with strangers but did not favor kin over friend, either when reasoning about fictional characters (Experiments 1, 3) or about their own friends and family (Experiment 2).

Finally, one weakness of current debates is the reliance on fictional thought experiments of unclear real-world relevance, or formal models with assumptions that can be manipulated to support either position.