His actions needed no model in a fictional monster, just a profound hostility to regular folk who had gathered, en masse, with their friends and their sodas, to have fun.
It may have cost Senator Gillibrand that she immediately followed New York's senior senator, Charles E. Schumer, who visibly broke up as he noted how Judge Sotomayor had found a role model in the fictional character Nancy Drew: "Now, in 2009, there are many more role models for a young Cardinal Spellman student to choose from".
In modeling a fictional zombie outbreak, the researchers actually had a more serious, real-world purpose in mind --investigating the way real disease outbreaks spread.
A gamefully minded person can find life models in "any heroic narrative, real or fictional — film, comics, TV, mythology, video games, literature, history, religion, social activism, or sports," McGonigal writes.
Diagramming fantasy: the layers of meaning in fictional cartography.
To examine whether violence in fictional and news television content frightens and worries children.
The images in fictional motion present a 'continuous surface', having a sense of 'time', for painting and photography.
David has appeared in fictional form at least twice.
Role models (real and fictional) are important, too.
Although the hotel no longer exists, the restaurant has been modelled on the fictional interior featured in the film.
