As for the evidence of the under-gardener, it was little better than pure invention.

A scene of his being tailed by a shadowy figure is pure invention.

I can confirm that stories about meetings at the party-political level are pure invention.

The concept of pure invention - or creating something from nothing - was in full effect by the end of the 1970's.

The most original writer of his time, he took no credit for pure invention and allowed none to others.

First, to clear the way, you should know that what I told you in this room nearly six weeks ago was pure invention.

That suggested that it was a true picture, not a pure invention.

Their spiritual certainties were the purest invention, products of mind.

The story of the bull cannot be dismissed as pure invention.

This story is a pure invention of the right wing.