Sentence examples for yet fictional from inspiring English sources

And yet fictional heroes need redeeming qualities, which is why Mr. Cronenberg wanted Robert Pattinson as the star of his film.

To the Editor: In his review of "Resistance," Jess Row cites Philip Roth's "Plot Against America" as a predecessor in the genre, mentioning that "Roth admitted he had 'no literary models for reimagining the historical past".' Yet fictional invasions of Britain have occurred frequently since 1871, when the story "The Invasion of Dorking" was a popular read.

Yet "fictional" would have no meaning if it did not stand in contrast to those things that are not fictional, while the distinctions made available by the contrast are ones we can hardly do without.

As tragic as our lives may be at times, it's really just narcissistic to think we're divinely chosen to fulfill such a noble yet fictional destiny.

In the last few weeks some comical, yet fictional, Fisher-Price products have been introduced ― perhaps the result of adult writers, designers and comedians that were Fisher-Price kids themselves.

Yet these fictional fiction-makers are so much the alter egos of the actual novelists that, one imagines, they would hardly be able to write in a different way from Shields or Powell.

Yet a fictional line was crossed and, as we disembarked, everything was exactly the same and entirely different.

Yet the fictional Ballybeg is every bit as real, in its own way, as the many villages and small towns that make up the actual landscape of the north-west corner of Ireland.

So how can these conservatives support this one undocumented yet assimilated fictional man's struggle for the American way and not that of the 12 million other undocumented, most of whom struggle daily to be part of the American way of life?

A mere intentional object is not yet a fictional object, as Thomasson (1999 89) agrees, so what makes it one?

In the end Bloom opts for sermo as his preferred mode of speech, closing his book with what he calls "A Gnostic Sermon". Unlike, say, the compelling yet nevertheless fictional Protestant Christian sermons proffered by the Reverend Thomas Marshfield in John Updike's novel A Mouth of Sundays 19755), this is the real thing.