Sentence examples for an extended narrative from inspiring English sources

Powers has taken his novelist's responsibilities seriously, has gone to the trouble of learning how to shape an extended narrative.

Taken as a whole, the myriad descriptions and depictions of winters past serve as an extended narrative, charting a course of the human imagination.

There's no time for any but a superficial analysis or, maybe more important, for an extended narrative, which might prove or disprove the author's hypotheses.

His Raptus Proserpinae (c. 400; The Rape of Proserpine) is one of the last examples of an extended narrative in verse that dwells wholly in the world of pagan mythology.

There is even an extended narrative dance of Hagar and her son exiled by Abraham, wandering in the desert and giving birth, in the biblical account, to the Arab people.

And, of course, the descriptions in the stories and their expositions are all spoken by actors as well, sometimes by one in an extended narrative stint, sometimes in a handoff of voices from paragraph to paragraph, sometimes as a chorus.

The word saga is often used in a generalized and loose way to refer to any extended narrative re-creation of historical events.

While writers prior to Cervantes deployed elements of this fictional template, he was the first to use the technique as a basis of a full-blown, extended narrative.

Basic information can arrive via tweets and updated blog posts, opinion can be dispensed and harvested across social networks and aggregations sites, but the pleasures and challenges of extended narrative require a different kind of time and space.

Only the first of these is included here, and only part of that—"The Winter War in Tibet" is the longest and most extended narrative from a series of very different texts gathered in the section of the same name.

In recent years more and more architects have used an extended architectural narrative to screen out the visual noise of the contemporary city, and in the process prepare visitors mentally for the act of viewing art.