Sentence examples for is fictive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Fictional, unreal, fanciful or invented
The result is fictive history, more analogous to Socratic literature than to the Greek novel (to which it is sometimes pictured as antecedent).
LH Hail, Caesar! (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2016) 7.55am, 6pm, Sky Cinema Premiere George Clooney is fictive 50s movie star Baird Whitlock, who is kidnapped and held to ransom while shooting a biblical epic.
This number is fictive and, theoretically, can only be achieved when VOItest can be folded exactly onto VOIretest, retaining its original volume.
It is common to say, therefore, that Sakyamuni belongs to the realm of historical fact and actual existence, while Amida is fictive.
The motor burst in question is fictive and not behavioral, and the precise timing is not established.
Is it hard to watch someone you love fall in love, even if it's fictive?
It is all about place, weather, a situation that might be fictive – except it really happened.
That's led some to conclude her story was fictive, another elaborate social media hoax.
Hardly objective, Courbet's realist works are fictive and rhetorical to the core — "conceptual rather than perceptual," Chu affirms.
Unlike, say, books, which tend to get slotted into unforgiving categories of true or not, songs can be fictive, or plainly confessional, and there's no telling one from the other.
Probabilities of single cases are "fictive" or elliptical, to be understood as claims about the frequency of a kind of case in an implicit reference class.
