Sentence examples for layered narrative from inspiring English sources

The oblique, layered narrative of Lee Kwang-Kuk's "Romance Joe," and the way its characters seem at once busy and paralyzed, may remind you of the movies of Hong Sang-soo, for whom Mr. Lee has worked as an assistant director.

"Five Days," made by the BBC and HBO, is riveting because it weaves the most familiar milestones of a major homicide investigation — the news conferences, police interrogations and family meltdowns — into a less predictable and intricately layered narrative that averts clichés without diluting the suspense.

He begins his projects with a fashion shot, before building up a layered narrative using paint, hand-lettered text and collage to create a cutting-edge, energetic feel.

Even so, like a lot of Twain's work, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is almost sneakily serious, a potent and layered narrative with the sheen of a story for young people.

This "affecting first novel" reveals "a gifted new writer," Michiko Kakutani said in The Times, applauding the "social detail and emotional verisimilitude" of Meyer's "richly layered narrative with multiple perspectives".

Even if you decide to read only the rewritten version of the story, you would want to stop at each sentence and note what had been scrawled out — because that's the point of having a layered narrative.

Young people today have to make sense of a complex, diverse world of intersecting, layered narratives, available to them on a permanent loop in just a few clicks.

Constructed in three layered narratives, the book features a once-adventurous travel writer who has fallen into despair in the aftermath of his young son's murder.

The brainchild of Grayson Perry and FAT architects, for Alain de Botton's holiday homes company Living Architecture, it is an intriguing matryoshka doll of a house that rewards close inspection, revealing multiple layered narratives the longer you look.

Over these personal alliances and struggles is layered a narrative of responsibility and war, of bigotry and isolation.

Though "Brokeback" was a box office hit, many critics felt Ang Lee's film failed to usher layered queer narratives into the Hollywood mainstream.