Sentence examples for forthright narrative from inspiring English sources

The author's biggest challenge is that of finding conversational ways to integrate cultural landmarks (Mamah reads Ibsen) and artistic ideals ("He's a visionary, Mattie, and he's going to be famous someday for developing a true American architecture") into an otherwise forthright narrative.

In Wyndham's books the ominous takes many intriguing forms, from grotesque social orders to telepathy and man-made monsters; these variable demons are met with a likable, forthright narrative sensibility — friendly, upper-crust British rationalism suddenly faced with an insidious other, primeval, beastly and shockingly late for tea.

Indeed, he often makes forthright story ballets, but even when he's working without a narrative his tone is still human, engaging.

The tale of JT Leroy's unmasking still has a tawdry tabloid fascination, and Ms. Albert's account of her frantic attempts at spinning and wagon-circling are in some ways the most forthright part of her narrative, even if she still seems a bit wounded that anyone could have doubted her or JT.

The word "thole" provided more than an entry into the poem; it also suggested a narrative voice, the forthright and familiar one that had belonged to his father's relatives, Ulstermen he refers to as "big voiced Scullions".

In its forthright, sincere attempt to harness the narrative drive and emotional sweep of the Dumas novel, the film is close in spirit (though not in style) to the 1934 version, which featured Robert Donat in the title role.

The story is unusual in its forthright approach to death and the intimate way it shows, through its first-person narrative, the healing power of ritual.

Helga's story is moving and forthright.

Seliger's interest in photo documentary has resulted in photographs that are limned with narrative: in the position of the hands, the forthright gaze, the shoes, the nails, the abs, the breasts, the tats, the handbags.

There is an engaging realist style here, and some forthright performances, but it does not quite achieve the depth and narrative satisfaction that the drama appeared at first to promise.

The author focusses on the interwoven lives of a number of characters in language as forthright and free of metaphor as a police report, and on the construction of an elaborate narrative that shifts between present and past action.