Sentence examples for fictional need from inspiring English sources

As opposed to them, the deflationary nominalist is able to accommodate significant aspects of mathematical practice without the need for creating a full parallel discourse (in particular, no operators, modal or fictional, need to be introduced).

Up to a point, the movie, which says it is "inspired" by real life but entirely fictional, needs this in order to set up the compulsive sexual excess of the character, named Devereaux in the film.

After all, fictional characters need their privacy and dignity too.

Pretend they're fictional, if need be, but never, ever soft-pedal their vices.

And yet fictional heroes need redeeming qualities, which is why Mr. Cronenberg wanted Robert Pattinson as the star of his film.

If fictional children need to be relieved of their mothers in order to experience adventure, the converse is true for nonfictional mothers.

There is something delicious about the thought of a functionary in an advertising agency doing ontology by arbitrating on the question of which fictional characters need a grey area of uncertainty around discussion of their existence – Little Red Riding Hood?

Of course, all kids watch their parents' parties — and everything else about their parents — so the problem for a TV writer is how to make a show that goes beyond that perspective and yet doesn't allow sweeping, Newsweek-y generalities (like the ones in my first paragraph) to stand in for particular experiences of the kind that real people have and fictional characters need.

Of course, all kids watch their parents' parties — and everything else about their parents — so the problem for a TV writer is how to make a show that goes beyond that perspective and yet doesn't allow sweeping, _Newsweek-_y generalities (like the ones in my first paragraph) to stand in for particular experiences of the kind that real people have and fictional characters need.

Every fictional story needs its own internal logic on which real world plausibility cannot trespass.

A convincing fictional world needs the truths of the skin and the eye more than the truths of the archive.