Sentence examples for break up the narrative from inspiring English sources

MICHAUD: I was glad to have the bits of folklore and the anthropological reports to break up the narrative.

To break up the narrative, every other chapter zeroes in on one of his trademarks or peccadilloes, including his surreally tedious fixation with model railways (Smack? Weed? Oh no: "Three padded flightcases travel with me on the road, with paints and tools, and whichever model I happen to be working on").

They don't break up the narrative so much as fill holes in the story, and give Ruth context through other women in history.

Marie's uncluttered existence affords little scope for plot; an aborted vacation to northern England and an unsettling two-week stay in Paris are all that break up the narrative's timid languor.

When he breaks up the narrative, he's like a guy doing commentary on his own game as he plays alone in the backyard.

This device breaks up the narrative to good effect as well as allowing us to "take the field" among the players, almost as if we were actually attending games, or reading contemporary accounts.

Indeed, the acknowledged Ottoman master of the genre in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Nevʾî-zade Atâyî, broke up the narrative into small unconnected tales and criticized Navāʾī for the complexity of his mesnevîs.

The book has its flaws; placing a lengthy historical section midway through rather than at the beginning or end breaks up the narrative, and a few errors have crept through the editing process: if Gerry Wilson, who partnered Golden Miller to a unique Gold Cup-Grand National double in 1934, was indeed born in 1797 as stated, his feat would have been even more remarkable.

After 10 days, break up the mixture.

But getting there requires Gingrich to achieve his stated goal of "breaking up the media narrative," and a second-place finish in Delaware won't cut it.

Pioneered by Norman Davies, in his unparalleled single-volume history of Europe, these break up the author's elegant narrative with succinct accounts of the main political ideas (mostly bad) generated on the European continent in the past hundred years.