Sentence examples for narrative command from inspiring English sources

Most reviewers were dazzled by Mr. Hoban's facility with sounds and spellings, his narrative command, his visual clarity and his sophisticated, eclectic sensibility.

Yet while her acolytes are articulate, and some hint at her narrative command, most merely echo her music, availing themselves of her cascading guitar lines, thwacking backbeats and yearning vocals.

I really think he could make the big film we all want him to, but, in order to do that, he would have to apply his sensibility and his extraordinary narrative command to truly serious social subject matter.' Thus far, though, as Kill Bill amply illustrates, Tarantino has gone in the opposite direction - further away from real life into the realm of pure filmic reference.

He has always been a master of the Old Testament narrative, commanding the descriptive, psycho-spiritual dynamics of the text which makes him a master story teller.

Finally, Lewis has a wonderful command of narrative structure.

Scelsi's methods were strange, but he had a command of narrative which no ghostwriter could have provided.

First, it's an astounding action adventure in which Stevenson's command of narrative, prose that's pared to the bone, is never less than enthralling.

A fine artist with command of narrative text as well, Curlee clearly details the challenges Bartholdi and Laboulaye faced in making their idea a reality.

He has a superb ear for speech rhythms, a generally astute sense of selective detail, and a natural storyteller's command of narrative pacing.

There is not quite a Scheherazade-level command of narrative on display, but there is a sure sense of how to turn literary traditions into active, theatrical storytelling.

The closest comparison that can be made is with Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End, which shares a similarly bravura command of narrative voice and a jaded look at the dehumanising world of contemporary office life.