Sentence examples for narrative backbone from inspiring English sources

The film begins with two survivors whose memories form the narrative backbone.

The conflicts faced by the four central figures form the movie's narrative backbone.

A strong narrative backbone helps, which may be why many such books center on one misunderstood hero seeking the answer to one scientific problem.

She plays the role of Eve, the disturbed girl whose slow recovery from a breakdown forms the narrative backbone of God Help the Girl.

His search for answers provides the narrative backbone to issues which may remain unresolved, usually laced with his gently sly comedy.

In a million different and fragmented ways, scenes of protest were the narrative backbone to 2011 played out again and again in cities as far afield as Santiago, Stockholm and Seoul.

In these passages we are reminded of the Malick who made Badlands and Days of Heaven, earthy tales with strong narrative backbones and an uncanny eye for detail.

There is a backbone of narrative missions that gamers must complete in order to progress, but beyond them is a vast range of dynamic encounters, side-quests and money-making ventures, from buying property to managing clubs and playing the stock exchange (which cleverly reacts to in-game events, allowing you to make extra cash by buying the right shares at the right time).

Macintyre uses the SAS war diary as the backbone of his narrative, and is candid about failure as well as the hard-earned successes.

But he is also ritually horrified by the crude duplicity that won Rupert the News of the World, the Times, the New York Post, 20th Century Fox and, of course, the Wall Street Journal (whose purchase, told in too much management detail and oddly devoid of key players such as the editor, Marcus Brauchli, and his implanted successor, Robert Thomson, forms the backbone of the narrative here).

Colorful characters form the backbone of the narrative; we meet a bickering, long-married academic couple, a rapist with great teeth, a woman working the night shift at a tire factory, a woman suffering from a rare form of dementia and a cult member.