Example Sentences

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The larger problem that “Graduation” speaks to is the profligacy of fictioneering, which applies as much to literature as it does to film.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

She has what most of her colleagues in this sort of fictioneering lack: a really considerable talent for romantic narrative, an ability to make plush-and-rhinestones look like the real thing.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has never studied physics, chemistry, or any of the other primary disciplines of science fictioneering, but his imagination more than makes up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of the desert of American fictioneering, so populous and yet so dreary, Dreiser stands up—a phenomenon unescapably visible, but disconcertingly hard to explain.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)