Sentence examples for a modern narrative from inspiring English sources

I would point – where Zuckerberg looks at modernity and sees openness and connectedness – to a modern narrative around pregnancy and childbirth that makes it more difficult to be open.

This shimmering portrait of an American generation, a modern narrative ballet set to the music of Billy Joel, follows the snoozily familiar stories of five blue-collar friends from high school through the Vietnam War and its long hangover.

These wordy Victorian outpourings are (of course) reflected back, in a modern narrative that is every bit as baggy and rich as those that the best Victorians used to trot out.

As an avid comedy lover and an unapologetic sitcom fangirl, I was excited to see how this old school format would play out with a modern narrative.

Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Marcin Kobylecki's Ark spins the Biblical survival tale into a darker modern narrative.

The author, an expatriate from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, writes about his homeland and its dying traditions, in tales that marry the elemental themes of Gaelic song (loneliness, sorrow, work, death) with a simple but deceptively modern narrative style.

Still, the modern narrative, a largely untold story, makes it as essential and relevant as "Moonlight," last year's Best Picture winner.

It seems they believe every modern narrative requires a bad guy.

That the paintings were not completed here or by a local artist is integral to my nation's bloody modern narrative; the decision to declare Australia "terra nullius" – a land without people – justified generations of genocide perpetrated on Aboriginal Australians, and was certainly not a decision made here or by the locals, either.

What follows is a modern quest narrative, in which the grail is both innocence and experience, the recovery of the lost friend and the gradual understanding that "everythin's exactly how it is in the light and nowt's what it might be anymore".

It's one thing wanting to feel good about yourself, but I don't understand the modern narrative that if you are a young actor, when you take your shirt off, you have to be jacked out … do you find it attractive?" he enquires.