Sentence examples for simply fictional from inspiring English sources

Like it or not, in all but the most evolved organizations, the idea of maintaining a work-life balance at the very top is simply fictional.

Like Bernie Madoff's returns to investors were largely illusory, so the benefits offered by a Ponziconomy are often simply fictional — as we've discovered the hard way over the last couple of years or so.

But Morgan – who has successfully dramatised the period around the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 in The Queen – said at a screening of the first episode last week that he had kept his distance from the Palace, even declining an opportunity to meet the Queen, while the Palace's line is that the programme is simply "a fictional drama".

"The narrative that somehow public education is failing in Los Angeles … is simply a fictional narrative".

After "Roots" first aired on television in 1977, a number of scholars and journalists questioned the veracity of Alex Haley's story, some even suggesting that Kunta Kinte was simply a fictional character that Haley created.

A sample "Portfolio Builder" plan provided by LearnVest, which includes the investment advice component, simply contrasts a fictional client's existing asset allocation with a recommended distribution.

There is a long tradition of treating accounts of women who fail to conform to these norms from woman-king Macha Mong Ruadh in Ireland to the women warriors of Scandinavia as if they are fictional simply because of our own base assumptions of what women did back then.

A fictional object simply has those properties according to the story.

Simply reading about the fictional feats of some distant hero whose life is even an iota more interesting from ours, fills our heart with contention.

Willie Gillis, Jr. (more commonly simply Willie Gillis) is a fictional character created by Norman Rockwell for a series of World War II paintings that appeared on the covers of eleven issues of The Saturday Evening Post (the Post).

Philosophers like Crittenden and van Inwagen posit that fictional characters are simply objects of reference within human discourse.