Sentence examples for only notional from inspiring English sources

The sense of haunting, central to Shakespeare, is only notional here.

But except for a spoken bit of Steinbeck at the beginning of "Sequoia Gigantes," inspired by "Travels With Charley," the songs seemed to bear only notional links to the books.

Espada was at the rally because his fellow defector, Hiram Monserrate (the slashing indictee — he says he's not guilty), had de-defected, which would leave the Senate tied, thirty-one to thirty-one — but that tie was only notional because, though Espada and the Republicans gathered in the Senate chamber, there was no quorum.

This production plan, though, was only notional as the USAF had no firm plans to procure the winner.

US District Judge Paul Gardephe deemed that Valle had not been serious about the gruesome fantasies he depicted online, even though the former cop had used the national police database to research real women as (apparently only notional) victims.

It is therefore intriguing that the Voronoi tilings of all four single cone types match this distribution so closely, since these tilings are only notional epithelia and the constituent cells used to generate them are not spatially contiguous.

The figure is merely notional.

He says that the figures are entirely notional.

Can we ever win real rather than merely notional equality?

It's a utopian world in which contraband will be only a notional concept, because enforcement will require policing ideas and blueprints, not simply goods.

Everyone, on the other hand – and there are few brave bookmakers left in this town – thinks Maidana has only the notional puncher's chance.