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In sprinting through all the negotiations that would finally put a winner on the Iron Throne, it accentuated its own fictitiousness: It was a story, and, it was getting late, and it had to end.

From Slate • May 31, 2019

The scow episode is really a sublime burst of invention; but it does not thrill, because the inaccuracy of the details throws a sort of air of fictitiousness and general improbability over it.

From Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Twain, Mark

Thus, some make comedy a representation of mean and others of bad men; some think that its essence consists in the unimportance, others in the fictitiousness of the transaction.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

How can this be so if the speech is too long—the length itself convincing the listener of the fictitiousness of the scene?

From Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words by Kerst, Friedrich

You have the poetry, the philanthropy, the man of to-day, the fictitiousness, and the business instinct necessary for the successful modern magazine all concentrated in one person.

From The Inventions of the Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick