fictive talent. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her novel The Sweetest Dream (2001) is a stand-alone sequel in fictive form. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Bio-bibliography] Reference
He described the excited states of the liquid by the motion of certain fictive particles called quasiparticles. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Painting is, in other words, a fictive art, and it is often most shamelessly fictional when masquerading as unembellished Realism. From Wordnik.com. [John Koch's Best Work Is With Naked Subjects] Reference
In later years, Galeano turned to fiction and "fictive" histories. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana] Reference
"fictive" does not mean unreal or ineffective - as we are currently experiencing, the effects of delirious financial capital flows are all too material and evident. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Ellis] Reference
I felt like we were exploring fictive space together. From Wordnik.com. [Ming Holden: Quotes From Istanbul: the Writers and Literary Translators International Congress] Reference
To imagine such a fictive world is not pure romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [quo Murphy] Reference
Physical and fictive poetry shared so many crossover points. From Wordnik.com. [Sharon Glassman: Big Science in a Small City] Reference
But what motivates the writers of the fictive media accounts?. From Wordnik.com. [Ahmed Moor: West Bank Prosperity Is a Myth] Reference
The fictive "space" within its boundaries is almost palpable. From Wordnik.com. [Masaccio's Deep Drama] Reference
Note: Thus even a fictive submarine would have been a problem, in 1951. From Wordnik.com. [History Happening: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman Found] Reference
What does Roth himself imagine is the "truth" about this fictive issue?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake’s Progress Giving Up The Ghost] Reference
Such “fictive” objects were metaphysically universal; they just weren't real. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
For many novelists, the trick is to learn how to turn the personal into the fictive. From Wordnik.com. [Write What You Know] Reference
I question if there is another fictive utterance to surpass this one in authenticity. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
More consciously, there is a retort to a fictive opponent who has called for surrender. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Ducat: Propaganda 101: How to Decode Political Ads] Reference
To that end, a fictive Salinger makes an appearance as a character in "60 Years Later.". From Wordnik.com. [Holden Caulfield, Grumpy Old Man?] Reference
Given the fictive nature of Melanie Phillips 'writing this applies equally well to her writing. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The collective ganging up reminded me of the fictive horror of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery.". From Wordnik.com. [Robyn Ewing: Palin's Speech: "A Rhetorical Lynching"] Reference
We entered Iraq more than five years ago on the fictive premise of a simple "good vs. evil" fight. From Wordnik.com. [The next casualty] Reference
Our mutual agent had given her to understand that our fictive conceptions of the universe were almost identical. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
In these last few images, Madonna poses with a big Italian family, plays with a baby and tangos with her fictive son. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna For Dolce & Gabbana: Plays With Baby, Poses With Italian Family (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference
And (3) the sensory system reconstructs faithfully, without fictive additions or embellishments, the external events. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Neuroscience] Reference
His novel performs, at the narrative level, the mutual erosion of the fictive and the real that plagues its inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Gorin: Paper Tigers with Real Fangs: Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City] Reference
But dear old Dad has used his considerable internet savvy and stumbled across this little fictive corner of the bitstream. From Wordnik.com. [joegood Diary Entry] Reference
Only very slowly was the term narrowed down to what we today call “imaginative literature,” and imaginative, fictive prose. From Wordnik.com. [LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES] Reference
What if the fictive counterpart to the real-life President Carter, a close friend of close friends, had won re-election in 1980?. From Wordnik.com. ['It could've been all different, Jack... You got to believe that'] Reference
This stone is clearly not part of a wall but rather is an interred ritual object, perhaps a fictive ancestor or supernatural patron. From Wordnik.com. [Digging at Peru's Cerro Mejía] Reference
The data survey (data sheet, table 10.10) contains fictive, but nonetheless substantially realistic, data on a family-size biogas plant. From Wordnik.com. [10. Appendix] Reference
But she does shoulder the related task of making sense of moral reasoning, and of explaining the point of fictive use of moral sentences. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
Pinborg sees Ockham's criticism as possibly making the same point as Bacon, i.e., the terminology invites some kind of talk of fictive being. From Wordnik.com. [Richard the Sophister] Reference
For now we have in charge the man whose fabrication of a fictive 'success' in Iraq demonstrated impressive skills at creating virtual realities. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: McChrystal: What's Going Down in Washington and Afghanistan?] Reference
He was a great novelist; only he had twisted his fictive power to practical and to evil ends; to deceiving men with false fact instead of with true fiction. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
He could try to manipulate her with apocryphal kidnapping notes, with fictive telephone calls, with utterly specious displays of even more specious paternal concern. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
I have always fondly remembered a remark that I heard fall years ago from the lips of Ivan Turgenieff in regard to his own experience of the usual origin of the fictive picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
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