Sentence examples for fictional man from inspiring English sources

"I thought I'd taken a real man and made him fiction," says Rankin, "but I'd actually taken a fictional man and made him fictional".

KELLER -- Ned has written that "the hero of my diaries is a fictional man".

MY fantasy narrative, the fairytale, the fictional man in a foreign land — it all began to vanish under those bright lights.

His novel "Matigari," published in 1986, led the government to issue an arrest warrant for the fictional man in the book who was roaming the countryside in search of justice.

The fictional man on the Arab street has all the features of Arendt's mass man: an outcast from modernity, deprived of access to political and economic goods in his own society, adrift in a secularizing world, utterly credulous of preposterous and impractical doctrines.

We are taught when we are young that life will be fair, good guys will win, that if we are well behaved we won't suffer, that out there for each of us is some perfect stranger who will swoop in with armor and save us, some fictional man or woman who will make everything — all the assaults and sorrows, traumas and disappointments — O.K.

Consider Julian Assange, or Kanye West, or Mark Zuckerberg, or the problematic fictional men of cable TV.

Wishbone's fantasies went beyond Western literature into Russian, Chinese, and African stories, but he seems to have become only fictional men.

Two blushing brides-to-be, both engaged to fictional men named Earnest -- a name they each cherish, a name to which neither suitor has a legitimate claim.

Smarter than most yet true to the form, Charyn's novel is shaped around Dickinson's obsessive love for several fictional men, dropped into the outline of her actual life.

Having no great desire to push at the limits of what could be said about women in love, she gave her own erotic feelings to a series of fictional men.