Sentence examples for a sort of novelistic from inspiring English sources
Some people may like this kind of thing, and I can be lulled along by it, but it's a sort of novelistic limbo.
The Little Friend takes a startling lift of conviction whenever the author lays aside her Famous Five narrative and goes instead into a sort of novelistic free-fall, describing the bruised emotions of the overlooked child.
Although the worlds depicted in "Vida" could not be further from the rarefied Oxbridge world that Harold Nicolson depicted in his 1927 classic "Some People," the character sketches here function in much the same way, coming together to create a sort of novelistic narrative that ultimately reveals more about the narrator than anybody else.
Thus the passage about Heinrich sitting alone in the dark awaiting Nelly's return from the hospital, only to get a phone call announcing her death, would be more effective if it did not appear both on Pages 4 and 5 and again, as a sort of novelistic or cinematic device, on Page 351.
It wasn't until I started writing that I realized that there was something under that surface, a sort of greater narrative, almost novelistic trajectory to this really focussed period of time.
Nunn's flair is for novelistic detail; his flaw is his weakness for glossy period touches, a sort of Quality Street version of history, with the poor always on the huddle and the rich swishing and swashbuckling around.
One was "Mercier and Camier," a kind of novelistic forerunner to "Waiting for Godot".
