Sentence examples for except for narrative from inspiring English sources

Although not literary in purpose, the Rigveda had a decisive influence on the form of Sanskrit poetry: except for narrative verse, the basic unit of all subsequent poems (no matter how many verses they consist of) is the single stanza that contains one complete thought.

I had been a little concerned that even if she was willing the obvious expectation on the part of some portion of the Vice directorship that we would end up fucking would contribute to a liaison that no one was excited about except for its narrative possibilities, a liaison that would take place in the bed of a pickup.

The human instinct is for narrative.

Consider the potential for narrative or concepts.

Except for that short narrative, Roberts casually mentions the incident happened in Southern California.

Except for a story about a yellow frog, the play, by Elizabeth Anne Keiser, has no narrative.

Moreover, in the course of his narrative (except for the pestilence of 430 and his command in 424) he never gives his authority for a statement.

Manetho's history has not survived except for some fragments of narrative in Josephus's treatise "Against Apion" and tables of dynasties, kings, and lengths of reigns given in the works of Julius Africanus, Eusebius, and George Syncellus.

I remembered nothing about the narrative except for a grotesque dénouement in which naked girls smear their bodies with margarine and, amid great confusion, crawl through a bathroom window to safety.

Except, the narrative is wrong.

Except for a few brief narratives and letters, the record is maddeningly slight when it comes to Vespucci.