Sentence examples for linear narration from inspiring English sources

He prefers lush, dreamy imagery and free-associative editing to linear narration, and the movie's look and rhythm is, like Leon himself, alternately charming and annoying.

Neither Cone nor Angell could have anticipated the 2000 season, but in telling its story, Angell avoids the trap of straight-ahead linear narration.

In what has now become one of the hallmarks of international youth cinema from "Pulp Fiction" to "Run Lola Run," Mr. Akin dispenses with linear narration, beginning in the middle of Daniel's odyssey and then looping backward.

Could it be that Un Chant d'Amour might be seen both as an echo of Cocteau's mythic, magical cinema and as a criticism of its crowd-pleasing use of linear narration, traditional plot and famous actors?

Before long the film forsakes linear narration altogether and becomes a matrushka doll of alternating realities, dreams within dreams, flashbacks inside of tangents, periodically intercut with shots of the six principals strolling along a desolate country road on their way either to a grand picnic or a Technicolor remake of "The Seventh Seal".

But Taylor can't let go of his pretentious design: imitating Alain Resnais and other modernist directors, he dissolves linear narration, plowing backward again and again, giving us more Southern-gothic moss — often when we're most fascinated or appalled by Brown and would rather not leave the moment to search for the root cause of his behavior.

This paper describes a novel software architecture that couples them for creating engaging linear narrations that can be shared on the web.

Rather than moving in linear time, the narration pirouettes again and again around that one point.

A late nineteenth-century reader was, however, accustomed to more orderly and linear types of expository narration.

Although the novel's opening words suggest that it will offer a retrospective understanding of its characters' lives, once "Matters of Honor" gets past those initial months at Harvard Sam's narration is purely linear, as if he has no idea the direction his story will take.

Voice-of-God narration.