Sentence examples for may be fictional from inspiring English sources

Edie may be fictional, but through her we learn some universal truths about country life.

They may be fictional characters, but look to real life and you find Billy Connolly, a high-profile figure who had a drink problem.

Timbuktu may be fictional but it couldn't be more real and urgent: it dramatises the effects of Islamisation in Mali, with ordinary people's lives being fundamentally transformed by squads of "police Islamique" surveying every aspect of their conduct.

The dialogue in the "Investors Centerr" may be fictional, but as police raided 14 addresses across Spain, seizing, among other items, an Aston Martin and a Ferrari, the reality is not far off.

PartiRank may be fictional, but there are no end of real-life equivalents: "platforms" companies can buy in that allow them not just to track their employees' movements and interactions but to install exactly the kind of continuing, neurotic-looking peer appraisal Eggers wrote about.

Much of the Bible may be fictional, but it can still bring joy to billions and encourage humans to be compassionate, courageous and creative – just like other great works of fiction, such as Don Quixote, War and Peace and Harry Potter.

While these threats of Kabanga men may or may not be fictional, belief in the concept of stranglers in the night may cause increased fear and isolation of youth.

To be fair, though, the characters based on reality may as well be fictional too, given how sketchy records were at the time, and how inflated their daring exploits became with each retelling over the past 300 years.

It may be a fictional self, but the illusion has to be created that it is not fictional; the illusion has to be created that I have no time now for making up anything.

In a system with no oversight, the identities of many account holders may be entirely fictional.

They also say some of the smaller groups that claim responsibility for attacks may be largely fictional, made up of ragtag groups of fighters hoping to make themselves seem more formidable and numerous than they really are.