Verb (used with object), : to fictionalize a biography. From Dictionary.com.
Besides, the film may fictionalise events completely. From Wordnik.com. [Burke and Hare Cast Expanding - Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson and Paul Davis Join Up | /Film] Reference
How can you fictionalise a crisis why it is still going on?. From Wordnik.com. [Snell-Pym » 100 Stories For Haiti] Reference
Next week, is dialogue week, in which I must fictionalise a conversation with my husband. From Wordnik.com. [2009 April « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
This was in part to fictionalise them, but also to remove some of the artifice of his first works. From Wordnik.com. [March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
I make a point of not watching films "based on fact" and I don't choose to read books that fictionalise real people. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Temper] Reference
Doctordi – how we need a Donna Tartt to come along and fictionalise Cambridge in a literary way – that would be so good!. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Reads « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
If the film is as much about family, why didn't Bouchareb fictionalise his story entirely – why hobble it with the baggage of 7/7?. From Wordnik.com. [Rachid Bouchareb: my film about the 7/7 London bombings] Reference
Six hundred words were suggested to tackle the important question of whether it is "right and fair" to fictionalise real-life characters. From Wordnik.com. [Tackling real-life characters in fiction is fine – as long as you do it well] Reference
Ben Myers's novel is an attempt to fictionalise what happened to Edwards in the few days – perhaps his last – after he left that hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Richard by Ben Myers – review] Reference
I was in a sense giving them the right to fictionalise certain scenes -- hopefully as few as possible -- in the course of producing the play. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
We've reached a point where you can't just fictionalise these stories anymore – there's a wider public understanding of, and a respect for, video games. From Wordnik.com. [Rockstar vs Daily Star: a landmark moment in games coverage?] Reference
Yes, I do fictionalise things, and I do invent characters and traits for characters, as well as subplots, but what I am doing is embellishing stories which are there already. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
I'm not sure why I had such a strong reaction to this but Alaric thinks the same way too - he thinks you can't really fictionalise something like this until a yr or so afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [Snell-Pym » 100 Stories For Haiti] Reference
"I really don't understand why we have to fictionalise the Anne Frank story, when young people engage with it anyway," said a spokesperson for the foundation, and she is, of course, completely totally right. From Wordnik.com. [Tackling real-life characters in fiction is fine – as long as you do it well] Reference
And yes, I do need the distance in order to be able to write about a place, because as a writer of fiction I need to fictionalise it to some extent, and I would find that difficult to do if I was looking at it through the window as I wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Mari Strachan answers questions about her first book, The Earth Hums in B Flat] Reference
You fictionalise them, you do not present it up-front and true. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The series is, in effect, an attempt to fictionalise the lengthy discussions of the day. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
It will definitely not whistle away because the opposition wish and fictionalise its demise. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
I was, in effect, asking for their blessing to fictionalise the lives of the men they loved. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
So when media do slant and fictionalise your life or loved ones, you are moved to reclaim the territory. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
It helped me feel calmer to fictionalise my life by thinking in narrative, and putting myself in the third person. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
It is difficult to historically analyse the recent past, far more to fictionalise it, because of the paucity of perspective. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to India offers cultural, historical, medical, and eco-tourism] Reference
"I really don't understand why we have to fictionalise the Anne Frank story, when young people engage with it anyway," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Limiting criticism to asking whether it is right for a non-Jew to fictionalise the Holocaust simply allows the author to answer the question, which Martel does in an interview with Stephen Moss in the Guardian. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference
We were people who worked in cafés and sold ice cream, not people who had the right to talk about their lives in public or to dramatise them or to fictionalise them or to give pleasure from our rehearsal of them. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
In her excellent recent essay, "Shakespeare's Daughters", Rachel Cusk bemoans that novels about home life are still considered inferior to those tackling supposedly weightier matters like war, and calls on those who fictionalise "domesticity and motherhood and family life" to champion their subject with renewed honesty. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Isit acceptable to fictionalise real characters?. From Wordnik.com. [Is fictionalising historical figures OK?] Reference
What Peter did was adapt it, turn it into a movie, take the spirit of it and fictionalise it slightly. ". From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Is it acceptable to fictionalise real characters?. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
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