Sentence examples for handy narrative from inspiring English sources

How much real intellectual commerce was there between Mr Menand's chosen four or is the Cambridge club a handy narrative device?

They are also a very handy narrative device: make the bad guys drug dealers, and it's totally fine to mass-murder them all.

But even this doesn't fit a handy narrative, as this line-up of the group was responsible for what is (in my opinion, at least) Lou's finest moment and one of the greatest rock albums of all time, Live In 1969 continue your existence without this amazing double album at your peril.

But even this doesn't fit a handy narrative, as this line-up of the group were responsible for what is (in my opinion, at least) Lou's finest moment and one of the greatest rock albums of all time, Live In 1969 – continue your existence without this amazing double album at your peril.

Cal's moments of omniscience, therefore, weren't merely handy from a narrative perspective; they proceeded from his character.

That would be handy, that would lend narrative continuity and drive - albeit of a not very novel kind - to the purposeless drift of events.

She reminds me very much of characters in Agatha Christie, and there are many handy murder weapons littering this narrative (the crowbar has already been mentioned).

Two little pigs end up as soup (that pot comes in handy), and the least familiar narrative, "The Three Feathers," shows that not all fairy-tale frogs turn into beauteous humans.

Putting that into a show is incredibly handy for the speed and usability for declaiming narrative.

That narrative, one of countless like it, might have come in handy last week when Obama was speaking in Ohio, just 30 miles from Goodyear's headquarters.

Bond's nine lives come in handy as does his resolve -- driven by revenge -- to give the story its narrative turns, pace and blood thirstiness.