It is in the fictionsconcerning her family that she is given such unenviable importance, and presented as a Maenad, a poisoner, and worse.
We will turn from the fictions they have left us--which, alas!
And just as the Pope's death was the subject of the wildest fictions which have survived until very recent days, so too, was Cesare's recovery.
Reinach regards the accounts of these island priestesses as fictions based on the story of Circe's isle, but even if they are garbled, they seem to be based on actual observation and are paralleled from other regions.
It is to La Nouvelle Heloise that both sentimental and picturesque fictionsfairly owe their original popularity; yet Julie cannot be called a good novel.
Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are butfictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity.
The philosopher Bacon describes the Asiatic when he speaks of men who "have hitherto dwelt but little, or rather only slightly touched upon experience, whilst they have wasted much time on theories and fictions of the imagination.
It is true that there were literary fictions in the age following the apostles.
All past accounts of miracles, no matter when or by whom recorded, they hold to be either accounts of natural events warped and distorted by excited and unrestrained imaginations, or else the pure fictions of superstition and credulity.
One of these fictions was the legend of Raynal's heroine.
From hence have arisen the fictions which have formed the basis of theogony.
This was not only carrying out the fiction with technical consistency, but was using it with good sense, as fictions generally have been used in the English law.
The art her maiden leisure loved the best; For there the easel and the hues were brought, Though all unseen the fictions that they wrought.
Yet there have been but few modern fictions of the novel's dimensions which have the beauty of form many a novella embodies.
The first of them, and the other poems and fictions I was reading, meant more to me than the rumors of war that were then filling the air, and that so soon became its awful actualities.
Did they read the new historical fictions aloud to one another?
Polybius, the Greek historian of Rome, not only recognized this function of religion, but went so far as to maintain that even the palpable fictions of superstition should be upheld as a safeguard against political anarchy.
But you will say that these principles of conduct and the feelings that go with them are mere abstractions, fictions of the analytical reason; no man is, or can be, purely religious as I have defined the term, or purely naturalistic.
The air which breathes through all his fictions is as pure as that which sweeps the streets of his mountain home.
With it ended for a time his fictions that dealt with American life and manners.
Probably many of the tales in Eratosthenes are late fictions consciously moulded on traditional data.
Political shams have done for English government what fictions have done for English law.
Legal Fictionsand Their Function in Legal Practice 22.
Swift, like Defoe, generally increases the verisimilitude of his fictions and his ironies by careful accuracy in details, which is sometimes arithmetically genuine, sometimes only a hoax.
Where, except in the glowing fictions of Scheherezade, may the personification of such a phantom be detected?
He neither ascribed his fictions to a great name as Ireland did, nor did he, like Macpherson, steal the heart out of national ballads and traditions, to stuff a Bombastes Penseroso of his own making.
This checked their currency; and all true believers yielded up the exquisite delight of poetic fictions for the insipidity of religious ones.
The people received these pious fictions with all imaginable simplicity, and as these are adorned by a number of cuts, the miracles were perfectly intelligible to their eyes.
All these are allusions to the extravagant fictions in the "Golden Legend.
Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
And nothing stands between the people and the fictions except the silly falsehood that the fictions are literal truths, and that there is nothing in religion but fiction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fictions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
