Sentence examples for models of narrative from inspiring English sources

The first setup is more of a situation, the second is more of a plot, but both are models of narrative simplicity and directness.

Its vigor, profusion, and raucous humor don't advance the art of storytelling but the movie simply outruns, outjumps, and outshines many of the neurotic, etiolated, and retentive varieties that are praised as models of narrative clarity and formal precision.

Models of narrative nonfiction are everywhere, on programs like "This American Life" and "Radiolab," in nonfiction books for young adults, like "Sugar Changed the World" (which is about slavery and science in the pursuit of the food additive), and even in graphic nonfiction works, like "Persepolis," which tells the story of a young woman who grew up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Jokes are a model of narrative economy.

Appetitive frustration becomes the model of narrative frustration.

The chapter on the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase, another defeat for Jefferson, is a model of narrative history written by someone who knows the law.

Director Nancy Meckler and choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa clearly think not, because their new production of A Streetcar Named Desire for Scottish Ballet is a model of narrative clarity.

Each is a model of narrative restraint, but in combination they combust, conveying the intensely painful experience of this disease in the literary equivalent of quadraphonic sound.

A model of narrative and summary, the rhythmically supple "Burial of a Fisherman in Hydra" concludes: "in the imagination of the living / The fall from glory is the fall from being.

The quotes from Sexton and Plath grate on the fabric of Purcell's instrumentation, while the triple plot adds confusion to a work that for many is a model of narrative clarity.

This revised first chapter is a model of narrative ingenuity — a sleekly moving seven pages that introduces us, with seeming effortlessness, to the story's main characters, and to the central plot of marital infidelity.