Sentence examples for more narrative structure from inspiring English sources

Edward Ash-Milby, the cookbook buyer for Barnes & Noble, said that the cookbooks that had seen strong sales in e-book have tended to be those with a more narrative structure.

The pros told me I needed more narrative structure.

Whereas previous Connie installments (which unspool annually) followed a more narrative structure, Fade To Connie marks a departure of sorts with this show being Part One of Cantwell's thoroughly exhilarating and twisted tribute to film history.

On the surface, the collection could be divided into two categories: invented journalism and absurdist stories that follow a more classic narrative structure.

It might seem like sacrilege to abandon it in favour of a more traditional narrative structure, letting characters sleep and urinate and fly around the world whenever they want.

"Smokey Joe's" doesn't try to fit its 39 songs into a plot, or dilute them with dialogue, and to my surprise I didn't wish for a more defined narrative structure.

Released under Schklar's real name, Article 90 follows a more traditional narrative structure than the Devil's other work, telling the story of Michael Cromwell, a former Marine who returns home from combat after being dishonorably discharged for violating Article 90, the military's code against disobeying a commanding officer.

Frank Stanford is a poet of significant bravado, and a maximalist storyteller of a distinctly American cast, and his The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You challenges conventional narrative structure more effectively than do a thousand other collections which turn their nose up at narrativity rather than, as Stanford does, plunge an arm elbow-deep in its dark and unknowable recesses.

"Import Export," which had its premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, is of an artistic and intellectual piece with "Dog Days," but its narrative structure is more intricate and its attitude seems considerably less mocking.

It looks like this: 1. enemy + intention → harms victims 2. hero + intention → defeats enemy and restores status quo Psychological research has found that this narrative structure is more powerful than any of its constituent parts.

Certainly, the former narrative structure is more organic, and it's for this reason that The Hobbit can and should accommodate a much more expansive, more languid, and less utilitarian view of Middle Earth.