Sentence examples for character of narrative from inspiring English sources

There is a grain of truth in this, for when Thales (who flourished around 580) is reported as saying 'Water is the origin (or principle) of all things,' this is different from saying, for example, that Tethys is mother of all the rivers, because it deletes the character of narrative or story (Aristotle's Metaphysics, 983b20 8).

He dodges the nature of evidence-based argument, the problematic status of evidence, the power of empathy and the structured character of narratives.

Such wide-focus studies need to be complemented by finer-grained, microstructural investigations of character as a part of narrative discourse.

There should be no switching back and forth between characters for this specific type of narrative viewpoint.

This character of the narrative — like the telling in the first person — seemed to be there from the very beginning.

A Tier-100 battle pass skin is a central achievement of the season, a main character of the narrative and a prized possession in a player's locker: the female equivalents have just been item shop purchases.

And, despite hearing wary wailing from anti-religious pundits, it is precisely the classical character of biblical narrative that lends a rendering its authority.

The character of the narratives we encountered may be described as rural South African reflections on living with NCDs and accessing formal and informal health care services.

It therefore does not allow for more expansive theatrical maneuvers — the creation of character, the spinning of narrative — the things that could turn it into a unified two-hour production.

But no matter how liberating some of her conceits, notably the older heroine, her embrace of sexist stereotypes, including male characters as agents of narrative change, keep her and her female characters down.

We hypothesized that this would occur because the Map task participants would make longer saccades in order to explore the edges of the scene to complete their task, thereby (at least partially) ignoring the main characters of the narrative that are typically shown near the center of the screen, which would require shorter saccades to explore.