Sentence examples for fictitious in from inspiring English sources

Confession, in literature, an autobiography, either real or fictitious, in which intimate and hidden details of the subject's life are revealed.

Elizabeth's portraits are notoriously fictitious in always showing her as a pearly-skinned icon of Renaissance beauty even when she was old.

Eatanswill (try voicing it syllable by syllable, and you get some idea of what Dickens thought of political piggery), is "ancient, loyal, and patriotic"; the fact that it is also fictitious in no way enfeebles the mockery that the author hurled in its direction.

But for Mead, since we are dealing with a functional distinction here, it is quite acceptable to refer to the "I" as fictitious in metaphysical sense.

The main conclusions are that the mathematical constraint of orthogonality has a dominant effect on the mode shapes, and association of the modes with physical causes may be fictitious in many cases.

Imagine a place, real or fictitious, in which you feel at peace and stress-free.

Photographs are provided of Gwen and Rhys, which were used as set dressing in the TV series, and fictitious in-universe documents such as Gwen's personnel form and her Torchwood case reports.

Clues hidden on tour merchandise initially led fans to discover a network of fictitious, in-game websites that describe an "Orwellian picture of the United States circa the year 2022".

Suntory, a century-old company based in Osaka and known for producing Japan's first whiskey — the actor Bill Murray famously pitched it in fictitious advertising in the film "Lost in Translation" — is one of Japan's largest privately held companies.

Agents want to know what role, if any, Hilbert played in creating what turned out to be $368 million in fictitious income in 1999.

"I think it's outrageous and wrong to portray people in the fictitious manner in which they've been portrayed in this book..