Sentence examples for cool narrative from inspiring English sources
Lansky's reticent self-assurance, and the biographical blur he presents (was he a wealthy murderous gangster or a surprisingly modest Mafia accountant?), nicely matches Lazar's cool narrative control.
Longer fiction seems to stretch Toole's modest though solid gifts as a storyteller, and the unlikely combination of cool narrative and wild Irish sentimentalism that sustains the shorter stories doesn't hold together.
Jean-Pierre Léaud is Antoine, a tearaway kid perpetually in trouble both in school and at home: his troubled family circumstances are only revealed at the very end - a cool narrative coup.
Stories about boxing and boxers, mainly elegiac, mostly told with cool narrative and wild sentimentalism; the author is a 70-year-old former boxer, trainer and corner man who knows whereof.
Selling wine tableside--either as a sommelier or server--at those places opened my eyes to a lot of what a "foodie" is looking for in their everyday wines: a fair price, a cool narrative, and a combination of complexity and drinkability amongst varying palates.
Indeed, this book reads like the absolute opposite of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, the clipped, cool fragmentary narrative that has long served as the canonical US literary account of that divisive conflict and its ongoing aftermath.
But the storytelling is pretty cool, and the narrative power of the stuff is usually pretty strong," he told the Guardian two years ago.
All the information was in witty illustrations, cool tables and that narrative I keep talking about.
The narrative is cool, not hot; very English, and not with the pious plain-spokenness of, say, C. S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity," but with a kind of stiff upper lip, as befits a man sent to boarding school when he was 7. The case for God is built slowly and rationally — as he makes clear, "no trance, no swoon, no visions".
The Céline narrative now includes cool sportswear, widely copied bags, hot shoes for grown-ups and those chunky metal cuffs.
Ms Zinovieff's narrative tone is cool and clear enough to let its astonishing characters, and her relationship with them, come alive; that makes for a compelling read.
