Sentence examples for funny narrative from inspiring English sources

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The effect, combined with her funny narrative, is charming and instructive.

In an engrossing, sensitive, and funny narrative, Akhtiorskaya captures the transcendent absurdities of intra-family communication, and explores the way one family's decisions can "cast a shadow that could be interpreted as fate".

On my bedside table now is Franzen's "The Discomfort Zone," a wondrous book of lively, intelligent, intimate — and funny narrative essays, which has received in the Times two of the most bewildering reviews I've ever read.

Petra's formidable mother Valerie, bitchy friend Sidonie and naive daughter Gabi also punctuate this often very funny narrative; and then there is the mysterious figure of Marlene, Petra's despised dogsbody and factotum who never speaks or sings a word and derives masochistic satisfaction from her mistreatment at the hands of the rather monstrous Petra.

The Cat in the Hat and other books by Dr. Seuss are good examples of how to tell a short, funny narrative story in rhyme.

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Gritty, bawdy and funny, his narrative is like stepping into a ­Hogarth painting.

Outrageously funny first-person narrative about the Queen's reading habits.

And so it goes, as the minimal small talk and virtual fondling escalate over 10 episodes into a poignant, funny and revealing narrative of desire and self-doubt.

Elsewhere, "Jetplane" is a very funny spoken-word narrative set at the head of an airport queue, while "Hittite Man" delves into ancient history, with a guitar sound just one remove from Joe Meek's "Telstar".

Then touring The standout comedy show of Edinburgh fringe 2015, Kieran Hodgson's Lance is a blissfully funny nugget of narrative comedy, tracing teenage Kieran's amateur cycling career, and his departure from Yorkshire to the dreaming spires of England's south.

Friends and colleagues spoke with fondness of Mr. Gray's vividly neurotic personality, and with admiration for the rueful, funny and philosophical narratives that he fashioned from the raw material of his own life, a storytelling style that begat scores of imitations.

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