Sentence examples for narrative at hand from inspiring English sources

With no narrative at hand I concocted my own: birds chirping at dawn, migrant workers trudging through fields, an evening dance in triple time, frogs peeping at twilight.

Like that of W. G. Sebald, Gornick's persona habitually discovers in specific works of art the drama at the center of her life; thus the interplay of life and art both form and inform the narrative at hand.

Regarding the main event, Roberts said, "even a match-ending run-in bypassed the expected convoluted machinations and played perfectly to the narrative at hand".

Whereas attorneys dwell in the world of legal nuance, crisis communications is all about painting plausible alternative narratives to the allegations at hand with a very broad brush.

For all the grimness of the matter at hand — the narrative advances through the assisted deaths of various patients — the filmmakers have sought to leaven the mood with some light-hearted touches built on Dr. Kevorkian's eccentricities, including a tendency to blurt out the truth even when it would not seem in his interests to do so.

Such oral narrative devices go hand in hand with the book's use of non-standard English, the island dialect used in both dialogue and narrative passages.

But, for black people, that past remains at the surface — close at hand, indelible, a narrative as legible as skin.

Its symbolic and theatrical power did not achieve material objectives but rather instilled a collective belief that deliverance was at hand; that the narrative of History was moving forward to a resolution.

That ending almost seemed at hand, until yesterday, when the narrative of his career was jarred in a new direction.

A postmodern style that continually calls attention to the mechanisms of its own creation and peppers a sprawling narrative with any item of interest, however tangentially related to the subject at hand.

The magnifying glass is useless though without a telescope kept at hand, because these movies are simultaneously tiny and sweeping in narrative.