Sentence examples for formal narrative from inspiring English sources
Each is a marvel of formal, narrative and psychological compression.
Instead of a formal narrative, a succession of news reports of a genuine Martian invasion interrupts and finally takes over from a programme of dance music.
Like the canal journey, it will feature no voiceover or formal narrative, but both will have occasional on-screen information telling viewers what they are hearing or seeing.
Second, related but more abstract, it is a formal narrative that follows a single artifact through scores of permutations, in terms of material, technique, sensibility and taste, proving once more the revelatory power of highly focused examinations of visual culture.
The exhibition does give a hint of what was exciting about Haring: how much formal, narrative and allegorical mileage he could get out of a relatively limited but cannily controlled cartoon language.
The movie gave a fresh confidence to Woody and a generation of solipsistic stand-up comics and it created a new genre, what we might call 'the relationship picture', that dispensed with formal narrative.
In particular, we question the work done when individual or even surreptitious texts are appropriated – or marketed – within formal narratives of inclusiveness, reverence and homogeneous nationalism.
But the artists he has selected, all born after 1960, show more interest in familiar formal or narrative photographic conventions than in real life.
Driven equally by rage, anxiety and hilarity, his paintings deliver an uncommonly potent combination of formal punch, narrative intrigue and metaphorical resonance.
Vasari, Salviati, and Jacopino del Conte, who worked with Salviati on the frescoes for San Giovanni Decollato, Rome, attempted to combine the formal and narrative artifice of the late Raphael decorations with the complex figure style of Michelangelo.
The 1988 image of a corpulent woman and her two small children crowding into a phone booth while she makes a call is comical, as Ms. Levitt's work often is, but the interest is as much formal as narrative.
