fictitiousness

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

Against the elemental power of romance, conceived in a Shakespearean sense, fictitiousness seems like a mere quibble on the limits of probability.

"There is no such thing as a work of pure factuality, any more than there is one of pure fictitiousness," Malcolm writes in "The Journalist and the Murderer."

This basic fictitiousness is the origin of the material contradictions that arise when natural commodities are treated as if they were "true" commodities, as completely privatizable, alienable, separable, et cetera.

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.

Havelock, who knew the total fictitiousness of the citations behind all the fruit salad on Hardin's chest, restrained a laugh as he always did in the presence of the JCS chairman's affectations.

"Of course, there is no such thing as a work of pure factuality, any more than there is one of pure fictitiousness," she adds in the book's afterword, which discusses her own author/subject libel suit.

John Burton argued for its fictitiousness based upon a demonstration of its actual utility to certain elements of the Muslim community - namely, those legal exegetes seeking an "occasion of revelation" for eradicative modes of abrogation.