Sentence examples for anecdotal structure from inspiring English sources

Still, it's meant to be a novel, not a political tract.' As a novel, its episodic, anecdotal structure won't please everyone, but within the various stories are some piercing aperçus on how we relate to one another and to ourselves.

Sampson Starkweather's 2010 chapbook, "Self Help Poems," consists of small prose blocks that are extremely Handeyesque, both in their first-person anecdotal structure and their overt refusal to say something cheaply "deep," while going instead for something weirder and arguably superior: It's true, I live in the woods alone.

The more truth-telling and pseudo-historical the stories became in form (tending toward an apparently random, anecdotal structure, making elaborate play with letters and other documents as "evidence"), the less credible became the content (miraculous feats of learning, stigmata, prophetic glimpses, memories of previous incarnations, and so forth).

"La Visita" (1963) is anecdotal in structure, essentially a two-handed sketch about a Roman bookstore clerk, Adolfo (the French actor François Périer, his leading-man good looks hidden behind glasses, a fussy mustache and a sprinkling of facial warts), who travels north to spend a day in the country with a woman he has met through a lonely-hearts ad.

To paraphrase one of the many friends who share stories of Mr. Fields in this anecdotal, loosely structured movie, he's the guy who would talk you into buying some sort of abstract painting before the work was widely understood.

Our approach to capturing contextual factors was anecdotal rather than structured; a more in-depth process evaluation would have strengthened data interpretation.

This was both anecdotal as well as systematically structured.

The basis of its historical transmission is anecdotal and its true global population structure has remained largely cryptic.

He wrote out of a tradition of tall tales; this is why he was particularly suited to travel writing, which allowed him to be anecdotal and digressive, without much regard to structure or plot.

The role of human play in limiting xenophobic aggressions is more than anecdotal and does not apply only to structured play.

A successful outcome in one implementation is only anecdotal evidence, unless some evaluation of the context (structure and process) and adaptations made for the context are also documented.