Sentence examples for fictional mode from inspiring English sources

Their highly personal films confirmed the importance of genre to the fictional mode.

This is the terrain of the gothic, a fictional mode that, at its best ("Jane Eyre," the novels and stories of Shirley Jackson), scrutinizes the boundary between the inner self and the outer world and finds it permeable.

Although the logician is not primarily concerned with the way things are,[21] he must know how they are in order to make statements that are true with respect to the being of things outside the composing and dividing mind (DOS 521), because logic does not teach how to reason in a fictional mode (DOS 578).

While Mailer and Oates refused to surrender the novel's gift for capturing reality, both were compelled to search out new fictional modes to tap that power.

Just below the understatement of the novel's surface is a turbulence as immense as it is slow; for The Remains of the Day is in fact a brilliant subversion of the fictional modes from which it seems at first to descend.

The work in the current show continues in this cryptic, documentary-fictional mode, with shots of what appear to be moonscapes and nuclear explosions, accompanied by copies of the United States Army's counterinsurgency manual.

But writing in a non-fictional mode, as in the essays of Known and Strange Things, permits me a more straightforward expression of what's at stake – and part of what's at stake is getting to the point where we say, "Come the fuck on, this should all be self-evident by now".

On Thursday nights, 8 million Americans tune into ABC's fashion industry satire, Ugly Betty, but insiders know that the popular show's fictional magazine, Mode, is unmistakably more Elle than Vogue.

The fictional is the mode most often thought of as simply "the movies".

Pop the disc in for the first time and the tutorial drops you right into a prison fight involving the star of "Champion Mode," fictional boxer Andre Bishop, in which you're told by your corner man, in no uncertain terms, to "knock that fucker on his ass".

Set on a fictional mountain, the single-player mode follows snowboarders competing in the SSX Championship.