Sentence examples for fictional passages from inspiring English sources

— asks about events in the town, the children's faces are scared, blank or defiantly smiling, registering emotion in a way the film's openly fictional passages can't manage.

At the same time some of his most searching reflections and most engaging fictional passages go back to the Midwestern town Kelch hails from.

But they lack the organic immediacy of the novel's more wholly fictional passages, which give us fine-grained portraits of four generations of women, whose lives intersect, tangentially, with those of the famous real-life men in this book.

Proust's speculation with Mexican stocks informed his various fictional passages devoted to financial transactions, and the Panama Affair shaped his understanding of the conquest of America in a little-known early text.

Dawson includes excerpts and quotes from Brooke's letters within her fictional passages, integrating both elements to create a complete narrative.

Although some scholars suspect it was Alma's unfinished adoration for her father that led her to a lifetime of bedding geniuses, this fictional passage imagines something else.

While the dialogue's scenario, and thus this exchange, are clearly fictional, this passage is nonetheless normally taken as indicating that Zeno composed a single treatise comprising numerous arguments, cast in the form of antinomies, all purporting to demonstrate the untenability of the commonsense presumption that there are many things.

Philipponnat and Lienhardt seem uninterested in the line between autobiographical fiction and historical fact, presenting passages of fictional dialogue as if they were actual conversations.

While the Bonanza was real, the characters and stories in "Birds of Passage" are fictional.

Weighty passages about a fictional Ulm text are leavened by Paul's unintentionally amusing recollections.

Francesca Lia Block, a kind of patron saint of fictional "thinspiration," writes laughably elliptical passages that read like demented ads for diamonds or bottled water: "I will be thin and pure like a glass cup.