What's the difference between fictional and oberon?
Fictional
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(2) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(3) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(4) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
(5) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(6) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(7) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
(8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(9) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
(10) As a critic, he reviewed crime fiction for the Times from 1967 to 1983.
(11) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(12) Subjects made probability ratings for fictional others who were heavy, moderate, or light drinkers or nondrinkers.
(13) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
(14) Austen couldn't avoid them, nor does her fiction try to.
(15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
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(17) I think he’s one of those people in life who simply doesn’t really understand the difference between fact and fiction.
(18) The problem of consciousness is discussed briefly, including the contrary views of consciousness as a transcendental phenomenon and as an animistic fiction.
(19) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(20) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.
Oberon
Definition:
(n.) The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab.
Example Sentences:
(1) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
(2) Photograph: All Grid Deborah Oberon, marketing and alliance manager from AllGrid Energy , says: “The houses in the Barkly area had no insulation and in the summer they used to get so hot that not even flies would go into them during the day.
(3) But he rose rapidly through the ranks to play Oberon in Peter Hall's 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, the Antipholus of Ephesus in Clifford Williams's classic bare-boards Comedy of Errors in the same year, and Edmund in the international tour of Peter Brook's King Lear (1964).
(4) Oberon is clothed in vaguely Middle Eastern robes, bearded and crowned.
(5) Her face is truculent; she stares up and away from Oberon, who is apparently being restrained by a sharp-faced Puck.
(6) Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depicting the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller , painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
(7) More noteworthy than the "black Heathcliff" angle is Arnold's decision to shoot only half of Brontë's novel (which has been adapted for screen several times, most famously with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the title roles ).
(8) In 1983 an outbreak of Akabane disease occurred in calves in New South Wales between Coolah and Dunedoo at the foothills of the Liverpool Range, from Molong to Oberon in the Blue Mountains and in the Bylong Valley.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest misslucyknight quotes from Much Ado About Nothing Facebook Twitter Pinterest hopbopstop : "This is my favourite from a Midsummers Nights Dream, I had to learn the whole script in three weeks at school when I played Oberon."
(10) But that hasn't stopped attempts to do so, of which the 1939 William Wyler movie - with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Catherine, and doing away with more than half of the novel - casts a particularly long and deceiving shadow.
(11) In one, the Oberon Grill (516 2nd Street), I found a framed newspaper story from 1911 describing how Jack London had got into a fist fight in that very place.
(12) She toured as Sally Bowles in I Am A Camera and appeared as Titania (to Robert Helpmann's Oberon) in an Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, first at the 1954 Edinburgh festival and then on tour in north America.