With the music supplying the soundtrack, these daydreams are often historical fictions. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The contradictions and overdeterminations of their construction as stereotypes in the newspapers, cartoons, fictions, and polemics of the period are obvious. The forest becomes a space for the continual creation and unmaking of fictions. Collective fictions are, by implication, unstable and subject to the pressures of history.
The question of narrator and audience is central to family studies and the fictions they inspired. People know or assume that public fictions novels, movies, cartoons, etc.
The concepts of a language, dialect, and even idiolect are fictions, ordered abstractions from the unsuppressible flux of change that alone is real. When the new financial villains become aware of their self-deceit, their moral dilemma plays out larger problems of the magicality of paper fictions. When they sail away from the island to distant lands, they disperse misunderstanding and create fictions about the past. The argument asks that the desire for unified or emancipated futures be exposed as based in fictions of the past.
All these fictions are necessary to our thought and practice. To be sure, we still know little about the affordability of non-scholarly works - songbooks, tracts, short fictions, medical manuals, household encyclopedias, and so forth.
His travel writings and fictions should no longer be foreign to scholars of the imperial eye. See all examples of fiction. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! Love words? Need even more definitions? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different.
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Falsehood Literary Composition. While many in the West might find it enduring that the King is a Trekkie who once even had a Star Trek 'Voyager' cameo, Islamists consider science fiction forbidden because it presumes to know a future that only God can know. I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction , something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
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Term » Definition. Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 4. Wiktionary 3. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for fiction on Thesaurus. See antonyms for fiction on Thesaurus. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. Fiction, fabrication, figment suggest a story that is without basis in reality.
Fiction suggests a story invented and fashioned either to entertain or to deceive: clever fiction; pure fiction. Fabrication applies particularly to a false but carefully invented statement or series of statements, in which some truth is sometimes interwoven, the whole usually intended to deceive: fabrications to lure speculators.
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