Sentence examples for ingenious fiction from inspiring English sources
The film's plot was the villain's ingenious fiction.
Turning that ingenious fiction into a viable reality is another matter altogether.
Even though I have had a grudging respect for Sparks's knack for ingenious popular fiction in the past, this latest gushing, smouldering love story is just too ridiculously cliched.
Three years later The Name of the Rose turned the public intellectual into a purveyor of ingenious if turgid fiction.
This weekend, at the Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art: Friday at 2 15 P.M. and Sunday at 6 50 P.M., the Chinese director Jia Zhangke's most recent feature, "24 City," an ingenious blend of documentary and fiction, as well as a meditation on history and its effacement in contemporary China; it was at the New York Film Festival last fall and is still awaiting theatrical distribution.
Barnard was, in a sense, a man out of his time, writing ingenious and witty Golden Age crime fiction 50 years after that age's demise.
How a literary form which depends on the imagination can be classified as non-fiction I'll never know, but I do know one ingenious school librarian who ignores this and catalogues poetry alongside fiction.
The science-fiction novelist Robert A. Heinlein had an ingenious solution for dealing with such missives: a form letter with a series of messages, to be ticked off as appropriate.
Like a circus trick, a piece of Gothic fiction asks to be considered as ingenious entertainment; the pity and terror are not aspects of a cathartic process but transient emotions to be, somewhat perversely, enjoyed for their own sake.
Critic Suzi Feay wrote in the Guardian in January: "There's nothing new under the sun – or in the world of big-selling commercial fiction – but Paula Hawkins has come up with an ingenious slant on the currently fashionable amnesia thriller".
There's nothing new under the sun – or in the world of big-selling commercial fiction – but Paula Hawkins has come up with an ingenious slant on the currently fashionable amnesia thriller.
