Sentence examples for fictional models from inspiring English sources

"Pioneering Indian novelists used historical romancers like Walter Scott as fictional models.

What she has constructed, specifically, is a traditional country-house mystery, more brutal than cozy, but presenting the same kind of intellectual puzzle as her fictional models and adorned, as such books once were, with wonderfully old-fashioned maps, diagrams, engravings, courtroom sketches and other illustrations.

Not so with fictional models.

What constraints are there to the construction of fictional models and how do we manipulate them?

New mechanists also argue that the covering law model fails to distinguish predictively adequate but fictional models from explanatory models.

Non-formalized (i.e., non state-space, non state-spacetheoretic) models such as physical, diagrammatic, material, historical, "remnant," and fictional models are ubiquitous across the sciences (e.g., Frigg and Hartmann 2012; for the biological sciences, see Hull 1975; Beatty 1980; Griesemodels90, 1991 a, b, 2013; Downesuch92; Richasds 1992; Winther 2006a, 2011; Leonelli 2008; Weisberg 2013).

Rosi's view was different from the Hollywood fictional model, although Rosi was impressed by Richard Wilson 1959 movie Al Capone, and cast its star, Rod Steiger in his film Hands Across the City on this basis.

Set in 1672, when the French overran the Netherlands and the so-called Dutch Golden Age came to an end, "Writing to Vermeer" imagines a series of letters addressed to the painter Vermeer from three women: his real mother-in-law, his wife, and a fictional model.

In November 1996, Larter portrayed fictional model Allegra Coleman in an Esquire magazine hoax.

It is widely acknowledged that the fictional model of the book's town, Winesburg, is based on Sherwood Anderson's boyhood memories of Clyde, Ohio, where Anderson lived between the ages of eight and nineteen (1884 1896), and not the actual town of Winesburg, Ohio located in the same state.

All data obtained were then converted to input values for a fictional model nursing home anno 2008 for which yearly investment costs and savings were balanced.