Sentence examples for breakdown of narrative from inspiring English sources

The recent history of the cinema shows the breakdown of narrative conventions — and the rich range of heuristic efforts to work in their absence.

In what follows we offer two real world illustrative breakdowns of narratives related to the contentious issue of childhood vaccine safety.

Modernism was also often focused on the future of humanity, the struggle to understand the self and the unconscious when set against the cold hard power of technology, industrial warfare, the breakdown of emotional and narrative certainty … The truth is that it's such a fractured and diverse form that it's hard to give any one useful definition.

Composed as a series of high-resolution prose snapshots of late 1960s California, this elegant literary mosaic bears witness, in both its form and content, to the breakdown of the prevailing postwar American narrative as Didion's own faith in the conventions of a stable, communicable reality begin to unravel amid all the radical upheaval.

She favors Mr. Santorum's broad narrative — that a breakdown of marriage and family is to blame for much of the nation's current ills — and believes that he might help change some of that.

Illustrating the workings of evolutionary biology, her narrative focuses on the breakdown of adaptive mechanisms in an aberrant environment.

Ferreira stated that the lyrics for "Red Lips" were intended as a narrative of the emotional breakdown of "a very specific person or a type [that] always made me feel uncomfortable".

Though Charlie's reminiscences provide a regular jolt, the inexorable logic of the breakdown forms a narrative arc whose shape we know too well.

"Liberals in Washington would do well to let go of the Republican breakdown narrative," notes the final sentence, "and pull back to the center--or suffer the consequences".

Beware the grammar of narrative.

Weschler is a master of narrative nonfiction.