Sentence examples for Plain narrative from inspiring English sources
In terms of plain narrative, the Nativity story is hard to beat.
Shamsie keeps her symbolism firmly under control, deploying a clear, plain narrative style and a traditional realist form.
Then, almost as an act of defiance, he wrote one that was "plain narrative from beginning to end".
In some plain narrative ways, "4:44" is a companion piece to Beyoncé's "Lemonade". On the title track, Jay-Z is vividly self-critical: "I've seen the innocence leave your eyes/I still mourn this death," he tells his wife.
Fear of powerful newcomers with different values is a topical enough theme, and music is the medium that can absorb all contradictions and get right beneath the surface of plain narrative.
But underneath this plain narrative surface — or rather, resting on it the way a smooth stone rests in your palm — is a lucid and melancholy inquiry into the current state of American society.
Whatever we observe — Georges walking down a corridor, Anne crying in a café — we cannot be sure whether it is a plain, reliable narrative or whether the camera is a hidden one (hence the title), wielded by a compulsive voyeur.
On the basis that imagination, too, is no more than a fancy, upmarket word for fibbing, acts of fiction remain unknown; at Lecture Films, the movie studio where Mark toils — he is introduced as "one of our least successful screenwriters" — the typical product consists of a blazered bore reciting a plain historical narrative woven from verified facts.
Clement discovered deep philosophical truths in the plain-sounding narratives and precepts of the Bible.
She sings of the hard times, murderous urges and chilling loneliness that haunt the old Anglo-Celtic ballads but, with one exception, sets her plain-spoken narratives resolutely in the present.
Some of them — burly men with worn faces and white-haired women with slouched shoulders — told of suffering, and sometimes death, their plain-spoken narratives in sharp contrast to the data-driven discussions of board members.
