Sentence examples for fictitious situations from inspiring English sources

First- or second-person vignettes might evoke doubt or disbelief on the part of study participants, who would be imagining themselves as patients in what are known to be fictitious situations [ 4, 15].

The consequence illustrated in each fictitious situation depicted was created to reflect the content of questionnaire items used by Eccles et al.[ 26] to ask about risk perception and anticipated consequences; and the discriminant beliefs identified by Walker et al.[ 17] as predictive of GPs who do and do not intend to manage URTI without antibiotics.

"We did not find any evidence of MetLife being involved in this fictitious bidding situation," Mr. Calagna said, "and our internal investigation and review is continuing".

The footage is also a deceptively tender introduction to a movie that takes on stark issues of death and the value of life — issues that Mr. Apatow admits have dominated his off-screen thoughts, even as he insists the on-screen characters and situations are largely fictitious.

In general relativity, gravity becomes a fictitious force that arises in situations where spacetime deviates from a flat geometry.

Then he decided to write about it, creating "Boombox" from the real situation but with fictitious characters.

A rep for Allen told the Associated Press that the situation was "so fictitious and extravagantly absurd" that the director was not going to comment. .

The ability to imagine fictitious or future events and choice situations that require imagining potential outcomes involves regions of the brain associated with memory, such as the hippocampus [21, 42].

Thus more and more schools are departing from the once-hallowed "case method" established by the Harvard Business School, in which deskbound students analyze the situations of companies, real or fictitious, and make recommendations.

The capacity to imagine situations that have already happened or fictitious events that may take place in the future is known as mental time travel (MTT).

The details of Archilochus's life, in the ancient biographical tradition, are derived for the most part from his poems an unreliable source because the events he described may have been fictitious or may have involved imaginary personae or ritual situations.