Sentence examples for literal narrative from inspiring English sources

It's not a literal narrative.

Without spelling out a literal narrative, the scene hints at activities of salvage and repair.

As with Mr. Cunningham's work, there is never a literal narrative.

So it is a fundamental mistake of the director, Anthony Neilson, to attempt to give the plot a literal narrative line, starting with the seagulls whose cries greet your entry to the theatre (even to the men's room).

Peter Morgan, whose screenwriting (The Queen; Frost/Nixon; The Damned United; and more) has done so much to drive the new school, operates under a 10-year rule: "If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative," he said.

Metal Gear Solid has always been something of a meta-narrative first and a literal narrative second.

These were not literal narratives, but stories with deeper truths about the nature of humanity and the creator, the archbishop countered.

At its worst the music video is simply an unexamined visual narrative, a literal story created to match the music.

I find the possibilities of portraying a narrative – not a literal story for these are, after all, Illuminations not Illustrations – through focus and body-language without sacrificing choreographic content fascinating.

The thoughtful, never too literal visual narrative employed Viola's characteristic imagery of water, fire, sea, night-time forests, distant horizons which come slowly nearer, and humans in ritualistic or biblically inspired poses: prelapsarian, baptismal, transcendent.

The Georgia-based firm was founded by Brandon Vallorani, formerly of Answers in Genesis, the organization that opened a museum in Kentucky promoting a literal biblical creation narrative.