Sentence examples for fictional invention from inspiring English sources

Judges have not entirely escaped fictional invention.

(The legality of this is a fictional invention).

Blowitz is such an interesting eccentric that one assumes he is entirely a fictional invention.

Alex was a fine fictional invention but possibly not the best candidate for her own sitcom.

(The tale, derived from one of China's great classical novels, is based on historical sources, although Diao may have been a fictional invention).

The martial music, the dizzying space shots, Vader's singular menace — all of it seemed thunked down from on high, more Biblical revelation than fictional invention.

These and other fictional inventions perhaps come closer to a poignant truth about Frank, than straight journalistic reporting.

And the man who created best-selling novels with characters that were handsome black gay men shows how much he differs from his extravagant fictional inventions.

With many clicks, some of Adams's best fictional inventions, including the Babel Fish, which can be inserted in your ear to translate any language, are on show.

Now, inventor Greg Henderson has unveiled a prototype for a fully-working hoverboard, the fictional levitating device iconically used by teenager Marty McFly in the 1989 film Back to the Future II and one of the most lusted-after fictional inventions.

The others are hysterical characters, fictional inventions: Frances Barber's Comtesse de Saint-Ford, swishing a riding crop and alluding to various Black Mass practices, with her body as an altar; and a sly nun, Baronesse de Simiane, beautifully done by Deborah Findlay as an authorised passport to secular pleasures in a contained religious environment.