Sentence examples for narration itself from inspiring English sources

Distanced narration works best when in league with epistemology -- when you have a fallible narrator or unknowable characters; when, that is, narration itself is the point of the story.

The narration itself sounds like a voice.

The inflamed rhetoric of "Blood Meridian" is problematic because it reduces the gap between the diction of the murderous judge and the diction of the narration itself: both speak with mythic afflatus.

Although Phillips discusses Freud's later books throughout "Becoming Freud" — books like "Civilization and Its Discontents" and "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" — the narration itself stops, rather abruptly, when Freud is fifty.

The third-person narration aligns itself first with one character, then another.

Gillespie suggests, and Wolfenstein agrees, that the act of self-narration was itself a transformative process that spurred significant introspection and personal change in the life of its subject.

Instead, "Lowboy" performs a strange two-step: whenever Will is at the center of the novel, the narration vigorously stretches itself; but the alternate chapters, in which Violet and Lateef give chase, squeeze the book back into conventionality.

Here, the narration frequently interrupts itself even in mid-sentence or during a gesture left incomplete.

This is not an easy documentary to watch, in the sense that the filmmakers let the story tell itself, without narration or expert commentary.

And we see all sorts of endearing animal behavior (endearing enough that it speaks for itself; F. Murray Abraham's narration would be better if it weren't so cutesy).

(Something of the same issue besets the Olivier Award-winning "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which itself relies on extensive narration to propel its way forward).