We have become habituated to violence, and while this case might feature protagonists who seem fictional – a disabled athlete who conquers the able world and his beautiful girlfriend – they are real.
I'm too far behind to catch up by then; instead, I'll be watching the start of Season 6 of "Veep".* During the election last year, "Veep" still seemed fictional enough to provide reliable, hilarious comfort.
When I sank a gorgeous 22-foot downhill left-to-right slider to birdie the 16th hole and relieve Joy of 30 more (fictional!) dollars, I was shocked to realize that the steam seeming to come from her ears didn't seem fictional at all.
("The fiction that replaced the divine right of kings is our fiction," Morgan wrote, "and it accordingly seems less fictional to us").
Seems his fictional hero solves crimes.
Her list of recent accomplishments seems almost fictional.
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.
Since the movie's narrative seems largely fictional, we thought we'd take the liberty of adjusting the movie poster to a Katy Perry movie we'd actually want to watch.
He comes from a long English tradition of public figures who are liked because they seem more fictional than real.
It is perhaps paradoxical, then, that several of the hourlong "24/7" episodes, whittled down from 2,000 hours of film shot over 16 months and narrated by Dennis Franz of "N.Y.P.D. Blue," seem like fictional television drama.
