Sentence examples for a long narrative from inspiring English sources

First, there's a long narrative poem, the sort that Victorian children used to recite for company.

Weaving jokes into a long narrative is already a tricky balancing act, then complicated by absurdist shifts in unpredictable directions.

The work showed her in full-blown experimental mode, making personal and social explorations in a long narrative poem.

For the Kashmiri victims, the earthquake is just another, unusually cruel chapter in a long narrative of suffering.

In generations past there was generally a long narrative arc from arrival to fame to scandal to demotion to disgrace.

The battle scenes are long and the outcome of each lands a long narrative far from the starting point.

The original epic poem (which basically means a really long narrative about a nation's heroes) tells the story of the Trojan War.

The friend asked me some questions about my mother's past and I launched into a very long narrative, basically the story of my mother's life as I knew it, from her early childhood in Depression-era Pittsburgh to her younger years in New York in the early '60s to her time making a family and discovering herself as a writer and feminist in New Jersey.

Your reviewer's response to "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" (Aug. 3) made me wonder whether he'd ever taken care of a dog or — in this era of literary short takes like the cellphone novel — if he'd ever fallen in love with a wonderful long narrative like this one.

We also get to read a painstakingly long narrative concerning Jeff’s recent divorce from his wife.

We also get to read a painstakingly long narrative concerning Jeff's recent divorce from his wife.