Sentence examples for linear tale from inspiring English sources

A human life is a linear tale.

I wondered what William Steig thought about the three-dimensional transformation of his fractured fairy tale of a book, with its straightforward, linear tale and charming2-D cartoons.

But hang on: Lola, California is no linear tale.

Videos based on storytelling — retelling a dream or vision or blocking out the action for an imagined film — link linear narrative, tall tales and "yarns" with the drawn line.

Jacques starts to recount a tale clearly lifted from Tristram Shandy, but any linear narrative is diffused by comic mishaps, bawdy anecdotes and hobby horses galloping off in all directions.

Critically, no one tale is linear: they are confused and tangled, in much the same way that such damaging government policies have left real lives.

Its purpose, though, is linear: to make up a tale to which everyone contributes.

Kelly's book does not really tell this sad tale in a linear fashion, but throughout he tries to emphasize the failures of British policy makers and the lack of attention given to the crisis in England.

Director Todd Douglas Miller unpacks the tale in a linear fashion, opening with original footage from 1990, when palaeontologist Peter Larson and his team of fossil hunters uncovered the remains of the thirteenth Tyrannosaurus-Rex (and still the most complete ever found, with 80 per cent of the vertebrae intact).

Rebirth uses the Tales series' trademark Linear Motion Battle System (LMBS), a real-time fighting system similar to a beat 'em up.

The battle system is a variant on the Linear Motion Battle System (LMBS) from multiple Tales titles: an action-based combat system similar to a fighting game: button commands instantly trigger various attacks and actions, and different attacks string together to form combos.