Sentence examples for explicit narrative from inspiring English sources

But there is no explicit narrative or theme in "Lawn".

Though his images are intricately staged, he's never been interested in constructing an explicit narrative.

This ancient story is more an underlying framework for "Logic of the Birds" than an explicit narrative.

They weren't arranged into explicit narrative sequence, and I liked that — I had to move through them without taking refuge in any of the familiar stories.

The band is about context and history, making its connections visible: It constructs an explicit narrative of Afro-Latin music as a natural part of jazz and American culture, and as an even older, bigger force.

With his brief, fluid, darting images with undulating splashes of light that catch the characters' flickeringly rapid gazes, Carruth offers, in effect, a "Tree of Death" that gets deep into the psyche, albeit with a notable minimum of explicit narrative subjectivity.

There were no explicit narratives or grand themes in any of the four dances.

Matt Porterfield's third feature, "I Used to Be Darker," differs from the relatively discursive performances and explicit narratives of his first two features, "Hamilton" and "Putty Hill," and yet it's also very much in the same vein, with several cinematic twists that are not only an extension but a deepening of his methods and moods.

The game does not have an explicit story, but has a narrative line that connects the disparate worlds.

They are types from central casting in an overly explicit cinematic narrative, such as Hopper commonly subsumed to his vision.

Those revisions were almost always in the direction of making a painting simpler and less explicit in narrative meaning: painted out, for instance, in "Girl Asleep at a Table," were a dog standing in the doorway (representing, perhaps, the hound that accompanies Diana, the goddess of love) and a man, possibly the girl's lover, who is about to enter the room.