Sentence examples for narrative bite from inspiring English sources

Accomplished as it is on its own terms, "The Hollow" does not make up in psychological complexity or musical richness what it has lost in sheer narrative bite by keeping the vengeful, headless ghost offstage.

This narrative ended up biting Qualcomm in the ass, since it proved just how out of touch Qualcomm is with the younger generation.

Boiling down a richly layered narrative voice to sound-bite dialogue inevitably makes the play feel both more didactic and more episodic, in sci-fi serial style, than the novel.

"Of interest to zoologists I can report the following... .., says Pi, before giving us an empirically exact, bite by bite, narrative.

But the subversive victim narrative, explored with far more bite in Paul Verhoeven's new thriller Elle, ultimately fizzles out and investment in what happens to the pair becomes increasingly difficult with attempts to de-stage the story bordering on desperate.

He adds: "There's certain iconic things like Uncle Ben's death and the spider bite in the narrative that are very important to maintain - but the nuance and context are very different".

Or would we hear only the bits and pieces run through our chosen media filters — filters designed to neuter the force of any larger narrative by snipping it into sound bites?

But there was calculation behind the narrative's trajectory: the boy has bitten off more than he can chew; the pressure is too much for him; he's only 18 after all.

Read Yelp user Teresa R.'s gripping narrative: "My mum and I grabbed a bite to eat here one night and after our meal walked to return a shirt.

Read Yelp user Teresa R.'s gripping narrative: "My mom and I grabbed a bite to eat here one night and after our meal walked to return a shirt.

Yet the attention lavished on the work's construction — its hand-drilled pegboard holes, its paint-splashed base — reduces the photographs to bit players in a sculptural narrative.