Sentence examples for is not narrative from inspiring English sources

The reflexive touch is not narrative gamesmanship but, rather, a mark of Hou's own memory-steeped perspective.

Symmetric compositions are common in Mesopotamian art when the context is not narrative.

This is not narrative, This is not a work that gives answers.

Godfrey-Smith relates dramatic stories of mischief made by captive octopuses and spends a delightful chapter exploring cephalopods' sophisticated color-changing abilities ("a kind of ongoing chromatic chatter"),  but this is not narrative nonfiction about the secret life of cephalopods, along the lines of Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus".

The composition is not narrative but rather forms the context of a sole figure, frozen in a pose of profound preoccupation.

Leyner's fiction isn't narrative so much as a thundering procession of twisted skits, pinging from brainiac literary theory to the latest disgraces of reality TV.

In a program note Mr. Wuorinen stresses that his atonal composition isn't narrative and that his attitude, like Dante's, is mocking.

The lyrics are not narrative, and Stefani stated, "A song like 'Wind It Up' isn't about anything".

My shows are not narratives.

Cut and pasted without fuss, they have a pitch-perfect sense of design, but they are not narratives, and there is hardly any graphic violence in them.

The novels, novellas, excerpts, and short stories included in the Cheeky Frawg collection are not narratives in the traditional sense so much as a series of contextualized impressions.