Eugenides's two previous novels have been conspicuous for their narrative perspectives.
The collector's presence in the narrative is conspicuous because so tangential to the plot, and it doesn't take a very donnish turn of mind to view him as a representative literary sensibility, a kind of stand-in for the novelist himself.
And — most refreshing of all — Dean is only noticeable in her narratives by her conspicuous absence.
The narrative element is less conspicuous in writing that does not purport to relate a story than in fictional works, but there is a role for narrative in letters, diaries, autobiographies, and historical writing.
There are conspicuous silences and manipulations in the narratives presented by both clubs.
While conspicuous consumption of foreign luxury brands dominated the narrative for older Chinese, millennials are instead looking abroad for lifestyle and travel.
Downing, unlike Berrigan, is less invested in spotlighting his scaffolding than in the more conspicuous and concrete politics of twisting a dire narrative around a stem of easily-digested banality.
I wouldn't have expected the appearance of a troll so early in Atlanta's first season, certainly not in an episode in which money and resources and their conspicuous absence from people's lives, namely Earn's are the primary narrative thrusts.
It's a sect without any apparent mythology, and it's Coppola's most conspicuous example of the strange malady that afflicts all five of her perps — narrative deprivation.
That's why the scene involving a life-threatening allergy is all the more conspicuous: while the rest of the movie marches in lockstep with its edifying narrative, that scene is out of place.
