Sentence examples for a narrative that opens from inspiring English sources

Deftly switching points of view, and flitting backward and forward in time, Samarasan constructs a narrative that opens outward even as it deepens, revealing the wounds and secrets within each character.

Thai kickboxers and a Russian girl are among the regulars who receive passing nods in a narrative that opens with Sugar Boy Younan, a real 9-year-old, as a fighter to watch.

The race riots that boiled up from the streets of South-Central Los Angeles and erupted in 1965 are the defining event of LITTLE SCARLET (Little, Brown, $24.95), the ninth book in Walter Mosley's historical narrative that opened strong in 1948 with "Devil in a Blue Dress" (1990).

But actually, that is just one version of the story, just a narrative that is open to revision and re-interpretation.

"Fuck California, you made me boring" is how she opens the song, talk-singing through a narrative that feels as ad-libbed as "White Like Heaven".

Reviewing "Dragonsdawn" in The New York Times Book Review in 1989, Gerald Jonas wrote of her, "Few are better at mixing elements of high fantasy and hard science in a narrative that disarms skepticism by its open embrace of the joys of wish fulfillment," but faulted her "awkward similes" and "formulaic descriptions".

Keeping mind in Roland Barthe's idea that the best stories are those which are open to widely varying interpretations, Beaucage's sweet and sweepingly painted characters meet, flirt and wander in a loosely brushed Rococo paradise that opens up myriad narrative possibilities.

It's an exciting and reality-based premise that opens up lots of narrative possibilities for future episodes.

These scholars saw African fiction as a narrative documentation of African life that opened up access to the beliefs and values of African societies.

A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because "Possession" is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.

Like many contemporary photo-essayists (notably Alec Soth), Lutz begins with the landscape but includes portraits and still-lifes that open up a variety of narratives.