Sentence examples for narrative deck from inspiring English sources

Make that earthy, real, often well-padded bosoms, and you begin to understand how heavily — and dubiously — Mr. Le Guay, who wrote the script with Jérôme Tonnerre, stacks the narrative deck.

When it keeps on stumbling over the same easily avoidable obstacles and when it keeps stacking the narrative deck in preposterously lopsided ways, I react about as well as the Dowager Countess would react to finding a dirty hippie in the shrubbery.

Monroe on the horizon, and it's all narrative hands on deck.

Bartleby's famous remark "I prefer not to" is spoken by a recalcitrant shipmate on an early cruise ("the phrase etched itself in H M's brain"), while Moby-Dick's Captain Ahab springs from the tale of a monomaniac whaling captain overheard one night on deck ("the narrative sunk deep in Herman's memory").

At the heart of A Pin to See the Peepshow is Julia Starling: we first meet her as a teenager in 1913, clanging into the narrative on the top deck of a tram, her body at one with the rhythm of the vehicle as it swings down the Goldhawk Road.

"Young people, particularly young women, should be heartened by these findings because it goes against the common narrative that says the deck is stacked against them from being hired as entry-level professors," he writes in an email to Science Careers.

It is true that more has been written and lost about the exploits of Odysseus than has been preserved, and Mason is on to something in suggesting that the Homeric version makes canonical what was once "formless, fluid, its elements shuffled into new narratives like cards in a deck".

But it is misguided for the Conservative Party to make these issues the only part of the narrative, to clear everything else off the decks.

This was the first quarter since their rise that they've reported a loss; they can still spin that into a Rocky-esque down-but-not-out narrative, as long as they rearrange a few deck chairs.

The Democratic populist narrative targets politicians who have stacked the economic deck in favor of CEO's, big corporations and Wall Street - and against the interests of ordinary Americans.

Another CEO I work with sends a slide deck as well as a very lengthy prose narrative, sort of a "letter" to the board about what's on his mind.