Sentence examples for fictional needs from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

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.

The answer is almost everything, for two reasons: first, because a fictional self needs only to be a voice, or a mouth, to have a presence on the page; and, second, because when a fictional self is stripped down in this way an authorial self fills some of the vacated space.

"The Boat" is transparently a product of the increasingly formalized milieu in which American writers train — a well-wrought collection that, in its acute self-consciousness, trails a telltale whiff of "the industry" that is its initial concern, of the "heap of fellowship and job applications" the fictional Le needs "to draft and submit" when he's interrupted by his father.

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?