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She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMESIts grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.
PICTURE AND TEXTHENRY JAMESOf this part of the Gospel, Loisy says, 'rien n'est plus arbitraire comme exégèse, ni plus faible comme narration fictive.'
OUTSPOKEN ESSAYSWILLIAM RALPH INGEI question if there is another fictive utterance to surpass this one in authenticity.
BROWNING'S HEROINESETHEL COLBURN MAYNEI was for the time entirely the historian, with little time to dream of the fictive material with which my memory was filled.
A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDERHAMLIN GARLANDOne portrait, however, that of Olivier, would seem to have been purely fictive.
ROMAIN ROLLANDSTEFAN ZWEIGIn the first poem of the book, using the fictive 'he' as its subject, she indicates her attitude to that region beyond sense.
STUDIES OF CONTEMPORARY POETSMARY C. STURGEONFalstaff ceases to be a fictive creation, or the mere dramatic representation of a type, and takes on a distinctive individuality.
SHAKESPEARE'S LOST YEARS IN LONDON, 1586-1592ARTHUR ACHESONHer mind was naturally fictive, and she divined the immense world suggested by the girl's incoherent sentences.
ROSE OF DUTCHER'S COOLLYHAMLIN GARLANDLyon hoped for a letter recounting the fictive sequel; but apparently his brilliant sitter did not operate with the pen.
A LONDON LIFE; THE PATAGONIA; THE LIAR; MRS. TEMPERLYHENRY JAMESWORDS RELATED TO FICTIVE
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- bizarre
- blue sky
- capricious
- castles in the air
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- on cloud nine
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