In Jorge Luis Borges's fantastical story "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim," the narrator reviews a fake book, going so far as to not only describe its pseudo-plot and the background of its fictitious author, but to compare the "reviews" of its first and second editions by other "critics".
Investigators then set up a fictitious company and sought to obtain background checks from Guaranty at the discounted price.
To refresh himself after his long application to the dull world of the bourgeoisie in Madame Bovary, Flaubert immediately began work on Salammbô, a novel about ancient Carthage, in which he set his sombre story of Hamilcar's daughter Salammbô, an entirely fictitious character, against the authentic historical background of the revolt of the mercenaries against Carthage in 240 237 bc.
The historian A.J.P. Taylor likened Mitford's evocation of 18th-century Versailles to "Alconleigh", the fictitious country house that formed the background to her recent best-selling novels, a comparison that she found offensive.
He gives as an example a fictitious "trusted traveler" who has passed the background check with flying colors.
There's reason to be suspicious on this front: a separate experiment using fictitious job candidates with equal qualifications and background experience found that mothers are judged to be less competent and committed to work than non-mothers, and were consequently discriminated against in hiring and salary decisions.
Employees (N = 135) from different vocational backgrounds rated the overall job performance of fictitious employees in 40 scenarios based on information about their career adaptability, mental ability, conscientiousness, and job complexity.
In a movie that invites damaging comparisons with Fritz Lang's M, Berkowitz is a shadowy background figure with the foreground occupied by a fictitious group of macho blue-collar Italian-Americans who form a vigilante group and target as Sam-suspect an innocent punk rocker.
His 2012 film "Moonrise Kingdom," a sweet story of adolescent first love set against a background of pain and loss, is set in 1965 in a fictitious New England island community that undergoes vast geographical — and moral — changes by way of a quasi-Biblical, quasi-apocalyptic catastrophe.
His 2012 film "Moonrise Kingdom," a sweet story of adolescent first love set against a background of pain and loss, is set in 1965 in a fictitious New England island community that undergoes vast geographical and moral changes by way of a quasi-Biblical, quasi-apocalyptic catastrophe.
