Sentence examples for awkward narrative from inspiring English sources

This makes for an awkward narrative.

"Before Tomorrow" makes awkward narrative leaps, and leaves much unexplained.

But he is also an awkward narrative device.

Perverse though it may sound, it would have smoothed out the awkward narrative that feels awfully piecemeal and truncated.

Vera Farmiga, meanwhile, working on a larger canvas as both the star and director of "Higher Ground," manages to hold your attention through some awkward narrative turns with a character who loses and then finds both God and herself.

In a feat of awkward narrative and moral cross-cutting, Ms. Fielding also places Rosie in a fictitious African nation named Nambula, where a refugee crisis is at hand, famine looms, supplies are slow to arrive and the locusts are on their way.

The rituals are often opaque and the story often murky, undermined by the awkward, unsophisticated narrative text projected on a scrim.

What's fascinating about "Absolute Friends , in fact, is how deliberately awkward its narrative technique is, how adamantly le Carré refuses to be glib or ingratiating.

It was too awkward, the narratives of the day were all about iPhones and the sentiment among devs was that the hot ticket money was to be found in mobile.

As awkward as this narrative leap feels, its clumsy execution inflicts minimal damage on a story about a man poised defiantly between two realities: the one outside his front door and the one sprawling across his backyard.

In fact, the staging is sometimes contrived and awkward, whereas the narrative just flows off the page in a seamless mix of remembered country childhood and bitter present experience.