"construct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Perhaps a gentle reminder for promiscuous Tory rakes that Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character, and his world is a literary construct.
- Unfortunately, Haynes overreaches for some characters, building literary constructs instead.
- Unsworth's Iphigenia approaches her sacrificial altar more as a literary construct than as a real girl.
- "But he's just a literary construct," John repeated doggedly.
- But that's a literary construct.
- David Lanoue maintained in 2005 that 'our image of Issa is a consciously designed literary construct...earthy, compassionate, child-and-animal loving, unconcerned about appearances or public rituals or wordly power'.
- Four of these, he argued, represented witches who were "little more than literary constructs", owing more to the folk tales of the time than to any actual magical practitioners.
- The invention of the matrix, even as a literary construct, marks the birth of cyberpunk fiction.
- "We were getting away from the giant cabinet-of-curiosities approach to the idea of a good yarn, using literary and theatrical constructs," said Mr. Appelbaum.
- Ziolkowski continued: "All in all, however, the story remains a lifeless literary construct.
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