Sentence examples for a conventional narrative from inspiring English sources

The film delivers the story as a conventional narrative.

Madden has written a conventional narrative history, sweeping in scope and calmly, blandly authoritative.

Its difficulty lies in Ferris's refusal – rightly, I think – to make this a conventional narrative.

The result is an experience that usually lacks a conventional narrative, or even a time sequence.

This visual oddity is just one of many ways the novel willfully resists being read as a conventional narrative.

As with Proust, it seems that delivering a conventional narrative is far down on the list of Hallberg's priorities.

Universal Harvester, meanwhile, takes a more conventional narrative tack that is, until a quarter of the way through, when a bold metafictional move suddenly implicates one of the characters in the unsettling shit that's gone down, and will continue to go down, sullying the unspoken contract of trust between narrator and reader.

Universal Harvester, meanwhile, takes a more conventional narrative tack that is, until a quarter of the way through, when a bold metafictional move suddenly implicates one of the characters in the unsettling shit that's gone down, and will continue to go down, sullying the unspoken contract of trust between narrator and reader. .

In the introduction to "Shakespeare's Kitchen," Lore Segal's charming novel disguised as a book of short stories, the author offers an apology for not writing a more conventional narrative.

Does "The Great Game" represent a shift away from this model and toward a more conventional narrative?

"Empire" seems, at first, to be on a more conventional narrative path: Jamal is bright, talented, and decent — a credit to his sexuality.