Sentence examples for generic story from inspiring English sources

The result is a generic story ballet, disappointingly lacking in Balanchine's sharpest choreographic invention.

He said the Web site pages, action figures and virtual characters are an extension of the effort "to put a real face on what has been a generic story about the Army".

In a way, she's flipped the "Matrix" formula on its head: the movie leaned on philosophy to make its generic story seem more cerebral, while Thomas uses genre to jazz up what's essentially a novel of ideas.

In the case of Mr. Lodge's rather mechanical new novel, "Thinks...," it is the old C. P. Snow debate about Two Cultures -- science on one hand, the humanities on the other -- that is supposed to lend ballast and depth to an otherwise generic story of campus adultery set at a fictional British university.

Even at our own Disrupt conference, Director Joe Green didn't (or couldn't) be interviewed, instead opting for a generic story about the value of immigration reform.

Scenes are inserted to round out the generic story arc in what is otherwise an imaginatively daring piece.

In the primary study, "husband" stories were identified as first-person event-specific and generic stories but not systematically explored by the research team.

There's no such thing as non-generic story; if you think that, your head is up your ass".

The students were shown two articles: one was a generic news story; the other described a proposed welfare policy.

When, in 2000, they got caught in the crossfire of the land war I could hardly avoid visiting them, but even then I was still writing the generic African story: my parents were these sad, tragic figures.

In a sense, it eluded the conventions of a generic crime story (you could safely describe the police presence as largely ceremonial), its emotional centre shifting, rather, with the workings of vexatious marriages, friendships and parental relations.