Sentence examples for devices narration from inspiring English sources

Written by Jeffrey Sweet and directed by Mary Beth Easley for the New Federal Theater, the play rises beyond the confines of a courtroom with a slick blend of several dramatic devices — narration, flashbacks, period jazz music, a spare yet evocative set — and with an efficient cast, several members acting multiple roles.

Their best-known work from that era, like "Don't Look Back," Mr. Pennebaker's film about Bob Dylan, was made according to the principle that the filmmaker should be as unobtrusive as possible, allowing the story to tell itself and forswearing devices like narration, interviews and music.

To portray the writing process of both main characters Mr. Weitz chose a risky device: double narration.

The Affair attempts on television the device of unreliable narration.

The panels, which employ the device of continuous narration, are crowded, rich, and brimming with life.

But the device of collective narration has worked effectively on occasion, from William Faulkner's "Rose for Emily" to Joshua Ferris's "Then We Came to the End".

He has the means of quoting a subject with undeniable accuracy — all too undeniable, sometimes, for the tastes of some politicians — but he can't paraphrase what his subject is saying except through some such rather awkward device as background narration.

In his work, Film England: Culturally English Filmmaking Since the 1990s, author Andrew Higson notes that the film overcomes the novel's "subjective narration" device by having the camera stay fixed on Griet for much of the film.

Not all Kindle devices have the professional narration feature enabled.

Ostensibly deployed as a distancing device, the third-person narration frequently makes for awkward self-regard ("The clouds thickened over his head. But he found that his sentences could still form … his imagination still spark").

They can also hear audio in the form of music or narration through the device's headphones.