This allows Mr. Jenkin to spin out elaborate verbal riffs - some clever, some tired - while blurring the edges between real and fictive worlds.

HEMINGWAY was a writer who made the ethos of his fictive world a matter of living or dying.

His only reference to the time in the fictive world is in a distinction between the epic and tragic forms:

All of these objects create a fictive world, which may not convey literal truth, at least all the time.

The real world and the fictive world mingle.

The disjunction of lips and voice does not increase the film's surrealism; it jolts us out of its fictive world.

In the course of her picture-making, "Treadwell" itself dissolved into a fictive world, defined by the child's imagination.

We cannot give Fields sole credit for building up this character's fictive world, in which no scheme is so transparently phony that someone won't fall for it.

In most fictive worlds, people who talk like Charles are usually the victims of lobotomy, brainwashing or hypnosis.

Mackey's fictive world is an insular one of musicians composing, playing and talking jazz in the private language of their art.