Sentence examples for mode of narration from inspiring English sources

"The first-person mode of narration," Mr. Forman writes in his 1993 autobiography, "Turnaround," "is better suited to literature than to film.

What Fitzgerald learned, principally, was a mode of narration — the damaged overreacher, as recalled by his wonder-prone, meaning-seeking sometime sidekick, a seasoned listener.

Why did White suddenly adopt, at this very late stage of his career, what looks like a quite different mode of narration from that which he had so carefully cultivated over the years?

Indeed, although the protagonist of "The Woman in the Window," a thirty-nine-year-old child psychologist named Anna Fox, is wryly self-aware, her mode of narration resembles a film script.

Homes's ambitions may have grown in the quarter-century since "The Safety of Objects" was published, but her default mode of narration remains mired in the minimalism of that era: an uninflected indicative voice that flattens everything it touches.

Mr. Perelman is less interested in the look of tragedy than in its logic; he wants us to understand it not so much as a mood surrounding a series of events but as a mode of narration linking them together in logical sequence.

Week 2: Workshop focusing on voice and perspective - Tuesday 15th September The discussion will include modes of narration and communication, angles onto subject matter, style, tone, ventriloquism, free indirect, the reconstitution of author experience into fiction, word and sentence choice.

Over the years, you have this kind of heavy-handed style of narration.

Occasionally, the stop-start Joycean intermittence, allied to first-person stream of consciousness, seems an imperfect or even an affected mode for the narration of an entire novel.

(There's lots of narration).

We live again in a city worthy of narration.