People tell themselves whatever convenient fiction they need to, reality be damned. (theexpeditioner.com)
Just as O.J. somehow distilled America's racial pathologies and JonBenét encapsulated anxieties about an increasingly sexualized culture, Tonya's very existence confronted the country's convenient fictions about being a place where everyone has a fair shot, where an even playing field is the rule. (vox.com)
«Separate «things,» «forms,» «objects,» «shapes,» etc., with beginnings and endings are mere convenient fictions,» wrote Robert Smithson in these pages in 1968. (highbeam.com)