Sentence examples for constructing a story from inspiring English sources

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How do you go about constructing a story such that the ending reveals something about the beginning?

As they prattle on, you step back mentally and start to catalog the irritating timbre of the offending voice, the reliance on cliché, the almost comic repetitiousness — in short, you begin constructing a story.

"There is a radical error, I think, in the usual mode of constructing a story," Poe writes in "The Philosophy of Composition," a great, mad essay from which young scribblers may still profit.

But because he is constructing a story, he then slips an image of a woman into the mix, which adds a suggestion of drama (what's she doing here?) to what had been an elegant visual comparison between man and flower.

"What's different in the age of Facebook and Instagram is that people are very aware of the mechanism of constructing a story, a version of their own lives or experience, which is a version of the truth, but very different to the experience itself," he says, adding that this kind of slipperiness appeals.

I'm a firm believer in constructing a story by triangulating things or events.

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Unlike Ella, I could not construct a story that would help me comprehend what was happening.

"The way he'd construct a story – unlike the way anyone else did it.

A reason the humanities are so vital to science is that it takes a great imagination to construct a story.

Mr. Wasik sees himself as a brand architect, "somebody who can see pieces and construct a story that makes sense.

"I think you can construct a story linking the pressure for financial performance to those ethical breaches.

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