Sentence examples for as its narrative from inspiring English sources

"The Bully Pulpit" uses the personal relationship between Roosevelt and Taft as its narrative mainspring, and the relative unfamiliarity of Taft to invigorate Roosevelt's story.

In the 20th century, Botting writes, "gothic is everywhere and nowhere," as its "narrative forms and devices spill over from worlds of fantasy and fiction into real and social spheres".

Their relationship, as complicated and in its way as beautiful as a long, rough marriage, emerges as the film's dramatic heart, even as its narrative is focused on their attempt to make one last lunge for glory and recognition.

Electric Eden is a big and wide-ranging book which, it has to be said, goes off on some strangely tangled paths of its own, particularly as its narrative draws closer to the present.

There's bouncy charm and pictorial verve, at least, in the Guillermo del Toro-produced animated film The Book of Life (Fox, U) – a goofy banditos-and-bullfighting romance set against Mexico's Day of the Dead festival – even as its narrative scatters before one's eyes like a burst piñata.

There is a spiritual patness, as it were, a tying up of the soul's loose ends, that can be twice as vulgar as its narrative equivalent; look at the very last scene of "Signs," and you will see what I mean.

"Quicksilver" hints at one such transformation, as throughout its narrative, currencies and coins of different eras and realms mix; slaves and sea shells and cloth are rampantly traded.

As it passed its narrative from voice to voice in an unforced democracy of idiolect it shattered expectations of what literature was and who its heroes or owners were.

In subject matter it's akin to the movie Little Big Man, certainly; but make no mistake, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart creates and sustains its very own world, robustly catechising more than a century of American life as it bowls its narrative hoop along the epic inner lives of the so-called dirt-poor.

For obvious reasons, the campaign chose to emphasize the small donors over the big ones in its narrative, as it continues to do in 2012.

Kidnapped was well-received on publication and has since attracted the admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, who praised its narrative brio, Jorge Luis Borges and Seamus Heaney, among many.