Sentence examples for fictional point from inspiring English sources

At a masked ball in Harschmort House are two individuals who will become Celeste's allies in bringing down the cabal, Cardinal Chang and Abelard Svenson, to both of whom the fictional point of view is handed from time to time.

Hislop hasn't of course been into Famagusta – no one may, even now – but has stood near the barbed wire and imagined what life was like there, then and now, with her usual gift for presenting bits of history most of us are unfamiliar with from a fictional point of view.

IT is the question furtively whispered at cocktail parties, bandied about the hallways of Manhattan's private schools and grumbled about behind bedroom doors in Park Avenue prewar duplexes: Who is Mrs. X? From the fictional point of view, Mrs. X is the piquant central character in "The Nanny Diaries," a novel from St . Martins Press that arrived in bookstores about two weeks ago.

One of the biggest challenges, they go on, is teaching the machine to understand what's interesting from a fictional point of view – differentiating, say, between 'What if there was a chair with five legs?' and 'What if there was a little dog who learned how to speak?'.

I thought it would be much more interesting to do that from a fictional point of view.

The fictional kingdom first appeared in the Fantastic Four comics in the summer of 1966 and is, according to Marvel, located just north of Lake Turkana, at a fictional point bordering Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and South Sudan.

Ladyslipper Mine, the fictional focal point of William Kent Krueger's VERMILION DRIFT (Atria, $25), is an open-pit iron-ore mine, one of the largest in the world, while the Vermilion Drift is a horizontal mine passage, one of the oldest and deepest on Minnesota's great Iron Range.

Funny or Die has released a first teaser trailer for the film, which spans between 60 and 75 minutes and yet was shot in just five days, and the first look is basically a montage of every cliché, buzzword and melodramatic (and possibly fictional) turning point in the life of Steve Jobs and the history of Apple.

In it, Roth talks about his trajectory from an unknown writer publishing in the New Yorker to his literary education, to his college years, to the influence of psychoanalysis on his writing in the 1960s, to the fictional turning points, the big books, the alter egos, and -- most of all, the process.

The Farage character is of course fictional, but the point of the fiction is to bring out the contradictions that must mark the inner life of someone like a Farage, who must pretend every day he's just one of the people, despite his stockbroker background and fine tastes.

Although fictional, Woman at Point Zero is based on a true account of a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison.