Sentence examples for explicit narratives from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

As a result, he's occasionally forced to make characters say things like "What brings you to Monte Carlo?" And without the help of such explicit narrative nudgings as "Her whole future might hinge on her way of answering him," Mr. Davies has to trust moviegoers to keep track of the subtext beneath the conversations and to navigate unguided through the moral complexities.

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._ Ryan had asked if I might write something in response to them, and I immediately knew that I wanted to, but I felt uncertain about what form the response might take.

Unfortunately, the Gospels do not help us with explicit narrative, as they do with Peter.