Sentence examples for a main narrative from inspiring English sources

The destabilizing introduction gives way to a main narrative that recounts the circumstances that planted Sloane in this scenario.

Working on her first novel was entirely different, however, and she uses words like "massive" and "expansive" to describe the project, saying it was a new experience to get her mind "across a story that has a lot of characters with a lot of personal detail for each of them as well as a main narrative push".

The first half-hour, which turns out to be a prologue to the main narrative, is a little confusing, in part because it immediately plunges into arcane Inuit lore.

The upending of my enjoyment vis a vis the main narrative of the show made it even more frustrating and irritating.

Featherstone says that Nick Hytner [former National Theatre artistic director] once said to her: "We're really used to living in a society where the main narrative – politicians, kings, judges – the main narratives on stage and in our lives are male-led.

It is as if London only matters as a backdrop to the main narrative – namely whether or not special agent Gerard Butler can manage to extract US President Aaron Eckhart.

Each story features, alongside the main narrative, a kind of sidebar with fragments of historical fact and shards of dialogue underneath a date, like snatches of some ominous news ticker.

Grappling with Ian Buruma's review of Schlink's latest novel, "The Weekend" ("Living Down the Past," Oct. 17), I asked the following questions: When Buruma pronounced Schlink's characters "dead on the page," had he considered closely the women in the novel, especially the writer Ilse, whose own novel of terrorism and guilt unfolds as a foil to the main narrative?

Solving this mystery — cracking Anais open — soon supplants the cop-in-a-coma as the book's main narrative focus, as is only right, since "The Panopticon" is primarily, and triumphantly, a voice-driven novel.

Z dnia na dzień (1926; From Day to Day) is a novel interesting for its use of the diary form within the main narrative as a means of exploring character.

Skloot attempted to balance the personalized focus of the book's main narrative with a 13-page afterward that reads like a more broadly contextualized policy brief.