Sentence examples for a sustained narrative from inspiring English sources

From a dramatic perspective, though, the work is less a sustained narrative than a sequence of scenes vividly limned through beguiling melodies and brilliant orchestration.

The hour-long video was long enough to have a sustained narrative and just short enough to hold the attention of kids between the ages of two and eight.

I relished the idea of writing a sustained narrative in the voice of this charged, vulnerable, precious little boy.

They are perfectly happy to concentrate on a sustained narrative that in "Phoenix" sprawls to a Dickensian 870 pages.

Gilbert, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard and Juilliard graduate, who is currently leading the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, struggled to find a sustained narrative arc in the Berg.

Rather, I'm out to do what fiction and only fiction does: to portray in a sustained narrative those who did make political statements.

Hawthorne knew, as Wineapple says, that "his strengths as a writer did not lie in consistently sustained narrative".

Writer-director Paul King has more flair for comic set-pieces than he does for sustained narrative.

The evening's most successfully sustained narrative, inspired by Poe's "Hop Frog," shows Mr. Wilson's gift for playing amusingly with human scale, with a dwarf hero and heroine (Dirk Ossig and Claudia Renner) who might have been conceived by Velasquez.

Compared with this superbly sustained narrative drollery, Douglas's much-vaunted wit — vouched-for rather than experienced — rarely sparkles in the way that his reputation claims and the book demands.

It is the longest sustained narrative about Jesus in the Qur'an; all other verses are rather cryptic about Jesus.