Sentence examples for ingenious narrative from inspiring English sources

But there are some nice gags and some ingenious narrative turns in Curtis's well-carpentered screenplay.

Using an ingenious narrative voice, the novel describes the exploration of the galaxy by use of unpredictable and often dangerous technology that had been abandoned millennia before by a vanished civilisation (the Heechee).

Without its ingenious narrative framework and two entrancing performances — by Bob Martin as a lonely, musical-loving schlemiel with a hyperactive fantasy life and Sutton Foster as the showgirl heroine of his dreams — "The Drowsy Chaperone" would feel at best like a festive entree at a high-end suburban dinner theater.

If Mr. Berenson remains as much reporter as novelist at this point — a newspaper editor would tell him he had overstuffed his lead, and that he often tended to impart information that was all too well known — he still has an ingenious narrative to show for it.

It comes from his last collection of nonsense verse, Laughable Lyrics (1877), which contains some of his most expansive and ingenious narratives.

Alarcón's ingenious, looped narrative carries echoes of Beckett, Borges and Bolaño.

As we know from his ingenious backwards narrative Memento, Nolan has a genius for logistics.

Yet the gradually spiralling construction is the heart of the film, and it's ingenious; the narrative result an opening-out onto a moment of a potentially historic import is up to the audacity of Munch's ambition.

In "Northern Pursuit" Flynn poses as a traitor to try to befriend the Nazi and uncover his plot, a scheme the German quickly sees through, setting off an ingenious series of narrative reversals.

It is a fact that makes this early novel all the more astonishing, not only for its intricate study of the mind of a fanatic, but also for its ingenious form: the narrative is presented as a memoir with an editor's expository notes.

This remains an ingenious and effective narrative.