Sentence examples for distant narrative from inspiring English sources

At 24, it felt like a distant narrative; now it's an emotional link to experiences of adversity.

When his son dies (in Miss Ford's treacherous arms), Lincoln's grief is presented via an oddly distant narrative "telling" rather than interior dramatization: "Willie's death was, it seemed to Lincoln, the greatest grief of his life.

The irony of a narrative rooted in the distant past and the distant future is majestic.

The Melville of the novel's third-person "Passages" narrative is a distant figure, particularly when he meditates on his writing.

Given the vast timescale over which humans have interacted with the English landscape, it seems plausible that archaeologists of the distant future will concoct some narrative to unify these works with the stones themselves, perhaps one based on the astronomical alignment of the tunnel with the decayed footings of some vast M-shaped golden arches that were mysteriously erected some decades later.

Narrative takes a distant second place to character in Rohmer's patient, honest, almost literary dramas, and those characters talk an awful lot – too much for some viewers – but the fact that he was still turning movies out right up to his death in January speaks volumes.

But that amount of focus brings with it the modern media desire to create tension; to mold an entertaining narrative for the distant election season.

In a 1996 book review of "The World of Edward Gorey, Steve Hellerr wrote in The New York Times that the artist's satires "are not mere commentaries on the manners and mores of a distant age; they are inventive narratives about evil adults, mischievous children, illicit lovers and improbable beasts".

Add to this an over-reliance on polling data and electoral maths, and you end up with a media narrative that is as distant from the people as the politicians appear to be.

For most of history, both narratives were marginal, as distant from the mainstream of culture as the poles are from the metropole.

It's a rollicking narrative, a romanticization of a distant group of people, and a broadside against American shoe companies.