Sentence examples for complicated narrative from inspiring English sources

In earlier novels in the series, Goonan found ways to advance her vastly complicated narrative through characters whose personal stories elicited either admiration or sympathy, sometimes both.

But in grouping them by subject — "The Nude," "Abstraction" "Nature and Landscape," etc. — the guest curators, Nancy Noble and Sherry Buckberrough, suggest a far more complicated narrative.

There's something missing — a sense of urgency and discovery, a more complicated narrative path, a shrewder, tougher sense of who John Dillinger is.

William Boyd's The Blue Afternoon was a complicated narrative that began in Los Angeles in 1936 and moved back in time to the Philippines in 1902.

The article provided a complicated narrative of the events, with elements rarely seen in China, even in the troubled Xinjiang region.

Dealing with a complicated narrative involving many different people acting out their individual dramas over 25 years and in widely separated locations.

Complicated narratives are unpopular, says Jim Prior, CEO of Lambie-Nairn and Partners.

Their painstaking observation and their ability to handle complicated narratives is better seen in their drawings and prints.

Annette Grant writes that Gregory Crewdson's images "suggest complicated narratives, as if a whole movie were being condensed into one shot" ["Lights, Camera, Stand Really Still," May 30].

Indeed, storytelling itself remains a central concern in the author's work, in both his taste for willfully complicated narratives and his philosophical preoccupation with the ways in which subjectivity acts as a distorting prism for our apprehension of the world.

But the Carracci powers of observation and ability to handle complicated narratives is best seen in their drawings and prints, which range from Annibale's charmingly intimate ink with wash, "Domestic Scene" to Ludovico's ambitious "Last Communion of St. Jerome," a tightly composed altarpiece proposal.