Sentence examples for merely fictional from inspiring English sources

America seems merely fictional, chimerical: "A half-forgotten film starring Akbar the tiger and Charlie Chaplin…" Boris seems to anticipate the emigre life that Dovlatov would write about three years later in A Foreign Woman, a book which, like Pushkin Hills, is full of jollity and tremulous sadness.

Yet all the time we are aware that this is a merely fictional situation, so there is no temptation to yield to a desire to save her.

Such sentences have a use on which they have merely fictional truth-conditions, that is, truth-conditions from the stand-point of the narrative or work of fiction, and on this kind of use even their truth-values are merely fictional.

Siri input has been rumored for Apple TVs, both those that exist and those that are merely fictional, in the past, but this invention would arguably be better since it could work with existing setups and transform your home into a Siri-powered smart control center in one step.

Modal fictionalists often focus on the claim that possible worlds are merely fictional entities, and apparent commitment to possible worlds is to be explained in the same sort of way that apparent commitment to ideal gases or frictionless surfaces is to be explained.

Trilogy: Several protagonists come to the realization that they are merely fictional characters, or at least begin to question the reality of their situation.

Of course, this was merely a fictional version of last year's trade talks, as hilariously imagined by a fan using animation software on Xtranormal.com.

According to the company's co-owners, Mathieu de Ménonville and Rémi de Laquitaine, Ms. Gloss is merely a fictional muse dreamed up by the two former students.

His exuberant identification with Shakespeare's fat knight, Falstaff, with Dr Johnson (whom he worships) and with GK Chesterton, his ability to convince us that he is, indeed, Falstaffian, Johnsonian and Chestertonian, leaves us suddenly aware of a scandalous truth: Johnson and Chesterton existed while Falstaff is merely a fictional character.

Ironically, Breslin looked to the Biblical tale of Esther as proof of the Jews' suffering, using the horrific reality of the Nazi genocide as merely a fictional setting to convey that suffering.

Realize that Bella is merely a fictional character in a book, and realize that she has massive flaws.