Sentence examples for imposing narrative from inspiring English sources

By imposing narrative patterns on the seemingly infinite variety of human activity, they privilege plot over character.

Later, what he learned about the close loyalties of elephant families sustained him through his troubles.Virginia Morrell, whose biography of the Leakey family, "Ancestral Passions", came out in 1995, has refashioned Mr Leakey's usually workaday prose into a fine and imposing narrative of a heroic life in a continent all too short of heroes, black or white.

The observers immediately enter into a competition, imposing narratives upon the two women.

We impose narrative on everything in order to understand it.

Cleverly manipulating our need to impose narrative on events, she creates a compelling novel that ably dodges the conventions she's sending up.

It also describes how older people go back in memory and impose narrative order on choices that didn't seem so clear at the time.

The graphics are often cinematic, but it's difficult for a spectator to have any sense of the competition — to impose narrative drama — if he can see the battlefield through the eyes of only one soldier at a time.

So it's a surprise when she talks so candidly about her longing for children – although when she does so, she's also talking about the imposed narrative of female identity.

A reclusive artist who, apart from a single affair with a beautiful Russian and an annual dinner with his father has little personal or intellectual life, imposes narrative limits.

Kate was right; what I was after was a different kind of nonfiction, one that made room for gaps and silences, that did not impose narrative on non-narrative situations, one that called for, even required, participatory meaning-making.

… It's a fascinating book to stare at, and as with other kinds of abstract art, half the fun is observing your own reactions: anyone who's used to reading more conventional sorts of comics is likely to reflexively impose narrative on these abstractions, to figure out just what each panel has to do with the next.