He argued that to those who practice a religion, myths are not mere fiction, but provide religious truths.

Cinema rose to the challenge of the crash with hard fact, not mere fiction.

We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth.

For how, except by the merest fiction, can they specify the number and character of the parts which will produce weight?

The original Jerusalem mother community is mere fiction.

But the notion that a boy becomes a man only on a certain birthday is a mere legal fiction.

Yet in spite of the claim the story was true it seems to be mere (even though entertaining) fiction.

The conflict between art and life was no mere fiction in Russia.

What if different explanations are given for a mere fiction?

This is now widely criticized as mere fiction for the most part.