Sentence examples for finished narrative from inspiring English sources

But on the whole, novelists seem to prefer to get it right the first time, and to preserve the illusion of a complete and finished narrative.

The most obvious answer would seem to be for the networks to act more like cable: take fewer breaks, run serialized shows in consecutive episodes, and finish narrative story lines in 10 to 13 episodes instead of 22.

One, we wanted it to be a game that people would finish: a complete narrative that we wanted people to get to the end of.

After eight months, Hirsch had finished a narrative poem that is seventy-five pages long.

Written in collaboration with Alex Haley, who interviewed Malcolm more than 50 times and finished the narrative after Mr X's death.

She finishes the narrative by expressing that this (childlike) identity imposed on her ultimately undermines how she feels as a leader (lines 23).

He reaches a cumulative ending of all of them, and then finishes them all individually, giving a complete narrative pleasure that is rare.

She called the manuscript, which wasn't finished, a "trauma narrative".

Its structure is complex and sometimes unwieldy; there is much looping backwards and forwards in time as Ifemelu sits in the hair salon, and one feels slightly lost once her braids are finished and the narrative has moved on.

Puccini complained in a letter to his publisher that the Belasco play had nothing "finished, solid, complete," no narrative line.

Rightly or wrongly, if the game had finished there, the media narrative would have focused on his shortcomings.