Perhaps they're all weaving some elaborate fiction or other.
Later in life, Chanel fabricated her history, concocting elaborate fictions in order to obscure her humble origins.
To win passage of the peacekeeping bill last year, the Government wove an elaborate fiction that its troops would somehow be walled off from the danger.
She sometimes writes as though the events of history were no more than an elaborate fiction created by the powers-that-be (men) for their own invidious purposes.
He said the youngsters have written on topics from pollution to snowball fights and produced "elaborate, fanciful and beautiful" fiction and poetry.
Despite the elaborate fictions of the place, reality sometimes intrudes.
Is it all an elaborate fiction, a testament to his newly invigorated imagination?
So much of this stuff is an elaborate fiction.
But the camera does lie, and frequently, and it is from this starting point that Mr. Larson begins to craft his elaborate photographic fictions.
He had long since learned to avoid elaborate fictions.