Sentence examples for fictitious for from inspiring English sources

An early master, Alfred Polgar, said, "Life is too short for literature, too transitory for lingering description... too psychopathic for psychology, too fictitious for novels".

During the last two years we realized that these profits were fictitious, for reasons related to accounting games: off-the-books entities, sophisticated banks preying on weaker banks and opaque securities marked to model.

There's a lot of citizen activism in Thessaloniki; people using their imaginations to brighten lives in ways the ailing Greek state can't ("It's like a kind of fake state; it's just basically non-existent, fictitious, for all the good it does," was how Thouli Misirloglou, curator of an arts project in a disused city-centre hotel, described it).

The diversity of the readings of these archetypal themes sketched out above, of dream and trauma, birth and death, means that one could easily fill a whole library— a "bibliotheca gigeriana," albeit fictitious for the time being on the draftsman, painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and designer H.R. Giger.

Without loss of generality, k(i) can be defined to be a constant equal to n for all i by introducing fictitious variables in each function: the variable x i is fictitious for a function f if f x1,…, x i −1,0, x i +1,…, x n ) =  f x1,…, x i −1,1, x i +1,…, x n ) for all possible values of x1,…, x i −1, x i +1,…, x n.

You can create an alias with a birthday that is not yours and address that is fictitious for these sites.

However, corruption ensued, with contractors paid exorbitant fees for fictitious routes and for providing low quality postal service to the rural areas.

These include the trial of Alain Juppé, head of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement, and others over "fictitious jobs" for party workers at the Paris town hall, in which a verdict is due in January.

We analyze all fictitious methods for simplified problems and obtain explicit expressions for the optimal reduction factor (convergence rate index) at the FSI interface [2].

Abrams created the fictitious drink for Alias and it reappeared in viral marketing for Cloverfield.

The group sent the company two fictitious résumés for a job opening in Patoka, Ill.