Sentence examples for fictional society from inspiring English sources

Initially it's a process of deciding how what you know about a fictional society will affect their vocabulary.

The results are alternately comical and cruel – the women in this fictional society are emboldened by the power that is afforded them and they are all too willing to abuse it.

The first half — a lengthy and meticulous look at the post-apocalyptic country of Panem, of its institutions and its contrasts — is actually the most engaging and dramatic part of the movie, a sort of sociological documentary about a fictional society.

The first half a lengthy and meticulous look at the post-apocalyptic country of Panem, of its institutions and its contrasts is actually the most engaging and dramatic part of the movie, a sort of sociological documentary about a fictional society.

It is set in the London of the distant future – AD 2540 – and describes a fictional society inspired by two things: Huxley's imaginative extrapolation of scientific and social trends; and his first visit to the US, in which he was struck by how a population could apparently be rendered docile by advertising and retail therapy.

The fictional society's rules leave little to chance, from hairstyles to diet to sexual mores.

"We are interested in how institutions like the British Museum and Wellcome Collection use objects to piece together stories about ancient, almost fictional societies, leaving space for the viewer to fill in the gaps," says Anthony Dunne, who founded the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art with Fiona Raby, exploring the future interface of science, technology and design.

Though she's lauded as a feminist novelist and poet who's used fictional societies to criticize gender norms, she admits that she was slow to grow into her own beliefs.

Laura Wade's adaptation of her own controversial satire Posh, about a fictional dining society called The Riot Club, has also made the list.

Posh centres around a fictional dining society called The Riot Club, made up of wealthy, male, public school-educated Oxford University students, which closely mirrors the real-life Bullingdon Club.

Like Heinlein's fictional secret society of geniuses, who train themselves in Speedtalk in order to think faster and more clearly, Bakhtiyarov and the psychoneticists believe that an Ithkuil training regimen has the potential to reshape human consciousness and help them "solve problems faster".