Sentence examples for levels of narrative from inspiring English sources
In its peculiarly concrete variety of abstraction and multiple levels of narrative gamesmanship, "Listen Up Philip" disinvites the sort of discussion of character and motive that all too often takes the movie screen for a transparent view of real people.
Glenn Kenny of Premiere criticized the film's time-shifting narrative and multiple storylines, saying it "yields heretofore undreamed of levels of narrative incoherence".
Her synthesis of her discoveries shows a startlingly high level of narrative and analytic skill.
But with "Crouching Tiger" we discovered that this opposition had collapsed, both at the level of production and at the level of narrative.
But for a photographer to sustain a level of narrative and story-telling, they have to gain an understanding of a community, which really takes time.
As the story progresses, an unsettling darkness falls across the themes being explored, adding a level of narrative maturity players might not expect.
Ultimately, however, the novel's glittering but frayed threads prove difficult to unite, and the resolution offered at its end requires a dismayingly busy level of narrative activity.
Viewers demand some level of narrative cohesion and payoffs for their years of investment in a series, even if it's a comedy (think of Arrested Development's dense, long-running jokes).
"The Last Mistress" is unlikely to make anyone truly uneasy, because its deepest provocations — the casting of Asia Argento as La Vellini aside — occur at the level of narrative rather than through its style.
At the level of narrative, it's more fun to have a villain, especially one whose unveiling is unexpected, whose name you might not have known when the evening began.
It shows Mr. Lurie ambitiously trying out some bold compositions, notably two-shots in which one character's head looms in the foreground while the second person blurs into the background, and a commensurate level of narrative ambition that goes awry in the execution.
