Sentence examples for function in the story from inspiring English sources

You have to understand your function in the story, but you are the centre of your world".

None of the old rules apply: one character after another meets a gruesome fate regardless of their heroism or function in the story.

According to Kroll, he was stung by accusations of anti-Semitism,and maintained that Wolfsheim "fulfilled a function in the story and had nothing to do with race or religion".

Each sequence has a strong and complex identity, intertwining many strands of relationships, interests, and emotions; their position and function in the story emerge from light leaps of imagination and concentrated inferences.

The women wore a generic Victorian grey dress with apron to signify their function, in the story.

Nolan said that "David Bowie was really the only guy I had in mind to play Tesla because his function in the story is a small but very important role".

Would you say something about the way time functions in the story?

Multiple mirrors at the back of the stage serve multiple functions in the story and also create illusions of depth.

Spielberg sets up an impotent villain, an ambitious customs official, played by Stanley Tucci, whom we're not meant to take seriously, and you can see the filmmakers straining to keep this dummy functioning in the story as an antagonist.

"The Kids Are All Right" is a work of "liberal realism," a phrase meant to ring as hollow as that of Socialist Realism, and, for all its cleverness and charm, its fleshed-out characters are actually far too sculpted, defined all too tightly in terms of their functions in the story's lines of conflict to be exemplary of anything.

And then, very close to shooting, I got the very first scene, which was much more local and rural in flavor than the others, so I had to rethink quickly what my function was in the story".