Sentence examples for block of narrative from inspiring English sources

It's such a familiar building block of narrative fiction and cinema – the character who finds themselves in a bizarre alien society, and by the end the journey has changed both the protagonist and the world itself.

Screenwriting is not about crafting lines of dialogue: it is about wielding the building blocks of narrative and thinking in pictures.

That meant not only having a main character from each show tell its story in rushed, hard-to-follow blocks of narrative exposition but also abbreviating some of the songs by omitting second and third verses.

You just have to get the gist of this film and follow its larger building blocks of narrative; I confess there were times I couldn't be sure exactly what was happening, moment by moment, but the choreography of intimidation and humiliation is plain enough.

The Tribe is a demanding movie: you have to hope to understand the general gist and the larger building blocks of narrative without picking up on the minutiae – which is, interestingly, how movie-makers broadly conceive of their work in its early stages.

Rosenzweig presents the generation of the grammatical building blocks of narrative as integral to creation, the relation between God and the world which we experience as past.

Gone are the usual building blocks of theater: narrative, place, a dramatic arc and the specifics of character.

Projected on a large screen behind Laity was a flowchart that explained the building blocks of a narrative: how conflict leads to the desire for resolution, which is played out through "actions, participants and events".

The Skin Team reads like a patchwork catalog of bruises, weaving segmented blocks of methodical narrative threaded together into something kind of beyond categorization, as far as novels go.

Together, they form the main building blocks of the narratives we call our lives.

Putting – maybe – an end to a debate that has been ongoing for millennia, the researchers found there are "six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives".