Sentence examples for slight fiction from inspiring English sources

The committee probably did not mean to slight fiction or poetry with its choice.

At times, this Gallic ghost story recalls the middle-period films of the American director Hal Hartley, namely his French art-house pastiches; even so, this slight fiction does periodically enchant.

Then and in the war years that followed, Forster was a quiet but doughty spokesman for civil liberties, a fact forgotten now that it is fashionable to slight his fiction and asperse the nature of his sympathies for Britain's colonised.

It's an action film set in a contemporary world, but with a slight science-fiction bent to it," while also describing it as "very much an ensemble film structured somewhat as a heist movie.

Falling somewhere between historical painting and photojournalism, Steve Mumford's paintings depict warzones with American involvement through a mix of mostly fact and a slight hint of fiction.

Are they going to say this is fantasy?" This seeming slight against genre fiction by an acclaimed literary author was taken as another campaign in the decades-long genre wars.

All three of those books, interestingly, seem to have a slight aspect of speculative fiction to them, an umbrella term for fantastical fiction genres.

"How lonely and unnatural man is and how deep and well-concealed are his confusions" — no wonder Cheever's fiction is slighted in academia while Fitzgerald's collegiate romanticism is assigned.

It seems when it comes to fictional sites, the difference between fiction and fact can be slight.

But I'm not worried about adult-adults missing out on YA fiction in the slightest.

Not innocent or accidental fictions, but deliberate slight of hand to distract audiences from dull looking performers. .