Sentence examples for flat narrative from inspiring English sources

Anthony Coleman's "Flat Narrative" (2008) seemed not to be rooted in any time at all.

However, I wanted to complicate the flat narrative of her holiness without undercutting it.

This, along with the fact that he chooses a straightforward chronological structure, could make for rather a flat narrative.

A meditation on an element of literary technique, "Flat Narrative" turns the ensemble — piano, violin, viola, cello and bass clarinet — into a small symposium.

He remains in thrall to flat narrative and to the mundanity of everyday life, but not at the expense of feeling.

All this expressed in a flat, honest narrative whisper that came to reside under my skull like some grim alternative identity.

If his discussion of the Simpson case falls flat, his narrative takes wing when he lovingly describes his three-year gig on Court TV, hardly a golden age in the history of law or television.

International war-crimes tribunals have developed a flat, repetitive narrative over the years, often with unsatisfying conclusions.

What is obvious, however, is that a middle-aged man like Sargent living with his mother isn't a hilarious sidenote to his flat-Earth narrative, it's a driving force.

Despite a playful preface that introduces the author as a postmodernist commentator on the story, the novel quickly devolves into a banal, flat-footed narrative that chronicles the characters' exploits through letters, journals and corny, omniscient voice-overs.

Some of his pieces are flat-out narratives.