Sentence examples for confident narrative from inspiring English sources

We think we know how this confident narrative will proceed, in ample furlongs of classic realism: the imperilled gentry, the advancing Red Army, the wintry trek westward.

It's a complex, confident narrative, spanning a couple of decades, that brilliantly investigates the miserable plight of a childless woman who lives most passionately through her relationship with someone else's child.

It is a glitteringly confident narrative pattern, gesturing at the globalised, historical forces that govern individual lives; in some ways it is like a very, very much better version of Alejandro González Iñárritu's mediocre film Babel - there is some similar business with a handgun - but not as schematic and superficial.

I think it's her best novel to date, with it's wonderfully confident reverse narrative.

First, in place of the grave silence that was the great theme of early postmodernism (or late modernism, if you prefer), language announcing a postwar exhaustion, its own impossibility, as in the work of Beckett or Blanchot, there is a confident profusion of narratives, an often comic abundance of story-making.

This may, of course, simply be a reflection of the state of my own life, and the embattled place film now has within it; specifically, that it's been a while since I could submit to a long bout of meta-narrative confident I wasn't going to drift off midway into a more mundane reverie about mortgage payments and my kid's need for a haircut.

From his childhood in Baltimore, to "The Mecca" of Howard University, to the early years of parenting his son, Coates examines the black man's place in America, and how he grew into a father raising his son to be whole and confident when, "The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are".

Kagame, 54, has been seen as a visionary, the face of a new, self-confident, economically vibrant African narrative that buries the passivity and victimhood of the past.

After three straight wins Sherwood has changed the Villa Park narrative and is "confident" of avoiding relegation.

One narrative is global, confident and innovative while the other is inward-looking, defensive and xenophobic.

Oh, and you'll need your book to be more confident, too, about showing its narrative tension.