"its factual" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a statement or assertion that you believe is true. For example, "It's factual that the Earth revolves around the Sun."
But the large amount of historical fact is subtly muffled, and the novel floats away from its factual underpinnings; it is as mystical as it is meticulous.
(When shown in England, it was praised for its factual accuracy.) Marianne Jean-Baptiste ("Secrets and Lies") eloquently plays Stephen's mother, a picture of restraint as she turns her grief into determination.
The US factual broadcaster – which runs cable channels including Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet and the Military Channel, and makes co-productions with the BBC such as Planet Earth – is thought to have paid about £10m for Betty as it looks to expand its factual entertainment output.
The military courts of appeal rarely, if ever, overturn a panel's verdict because it does not agree with its factual determination.
Ms. Peavy's lawyer, Marc Toberoff, said in a statement, "We respectfully disagree with its factual and legal conclusions, and it is surprising given that the judge appeared to emphatically agree with our position at the summary judgment hearing".
Which is to say that while Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be properly debated on the basis of its factual claims and cinematic techniques, it should first of all be appreciated as a high-spirited and unruly exercise in democratic self-expression.
Its strengths are its plainly factual and accessible writing.
It holds that when a case "aris[es] under this Constitution," judges must exercise judgment in accordance with "this Constitution," without deference to the government's assertions that its actions are lawful or its unsupported factual assertions.
The movie itself, however, was largely ignored during its initial release, in part because of its amateurish production values, its line-up of mostly obscure conservative talking heads and its lightly factual, non-chronological look through the scandals of the Clinton years (some of which didn't even involve Hillary Clinton) that many Americans had tired of years before.
Sister Carrie was the first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement in its grittily factual presentation of the vagaries of urban life and in its ingenuous heroine, who goes unpunished for her transgressions against conventional sexual morality.
(Club of Rome, anyone?) This proves, on its own, nothing but the need to examine every analysis on its own factual merits.
