Sentence examples for chart a progression from inspiring English sources

Though crammed with incident, Narayan's novels do not — indeed, cannot — chart a progression toward the formation of character.

He does not present his poems as nuggets of wisdom to be pondered: instead, they tend to chart a progression from concrete reality to a heightened state of awareness, as in "Winter's Gaze": I lean like a ladder and with my face reach into the second floor of the cherry tree.

In "Cubed," an oddly fascinating history of the workplace published last year, Nikil Saval charts a progression that looks a lot like expulsion, from the walled office to the cubicle to no desk at all.

Western novels about women whose lives are denied free exercise of will — Anna Karenina Emma Bovaryy; Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth"; Florence Dowell in "The Good Soldier"; Edna Pontellier in "The Awakening" — have often charted a progression of cause and effect that makes comprehensible, even inevitable, a woman's final, metaphorical flight to the river.

A couple of recent French domestic tragedies, Gaspar Noé's "Irrevérsible" and François Ozon's "5 x 2," similarly chart a backward progression, from misery to bliss.

There's no neat template, charting a set progression.

Nothing is new anymore or can ever really be and by "new" I don't mean an invention (like an iPhone or translucent concrete) but the sense of something coming before another, something replacing something else in a progression that charts history as a forward thrust in society.

"There was a progression you could chart.

We next looked at the distribution of YFP+ cells at day 4 EB, using the surface markers Flk1, CD140a and CD41 to chart developmental progression towards a haematopoietic fate.

The novel charts a uniform, calendrical progression; scene follows scene, each with the same weight.

The next nine images are a series of photos that chart the progression of the painting.