Sentence examples for whether fictional from inspiring English sources

For most of my life, I can't remember having thought much about whether fictional characters were likable.

In fact, adamant and adamantine have been used throughout history to refer to any material with incredibly robust properties — whether fictional or real, including some gemstones and metals.

Separating fear and darkness is no small task, especially given the depiction of cities at night which, whether fictional or factualised, is often dramatic and threatening.

LARISSA MACFARQUHAR: Vern: I agree that it's very different to see a dead body in person, but the question for me is whether fictional images of war deaden viewers to nonfictional images of war.

I'd like to meet him in heaven and say, 'Thank you.' " Business leaders, whether fictional like Ebenezer Scrooge and Gordon Gekko or real like Rupert Murdoch or Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, are usually regarded with considerably less warmth, as rapacious rather than revered.

Ultimately, whether fictional or not, the account of a suicide plays with this grenade: it is so difficult – whether by glamorising it or making it thrilling, whether you find a cause or accept no cause – to render it as anything but definitive and final.

It was not mentioned whether the fictional transcripts in the study were identified as coming from real universities.

The rule is that, whether in fictional renderings or the latest news about the ongoing reparations for Ireland's Magdalene laundries, nuns are portrayed as hateful and heartless shrews.

Whether playing fictional roles such as the ruthless overlord Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones or historical parts such as the icy British Commander Alastair Denniston in the Oscar-winning The Imitation Game, he is invariably cast as cruel, intimidating characters with an abundance of power but an absence of feeling.

Bart's vision, he is told, is 30 years in the future, which would mean Trump is hoping to claim the White House either six or ten years ahead of Greaney's prediction - depending on whether his fictional counterpart serves one or two terms in the White House.

Movies of recent years have been chronicling the effect of time (real time) on individuals, whether in fictional films like Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" or in Michael Apted's splendid documentary "Up" series, which has followed a group of 14 Britons from the age of 7 to (so far) their 50s.