Sentence examples for narrative diversion from inspiring English sources

Editors say this kind of narrative diversion is what readers want.

Now, the BGT audience can put up with a lot of crap, but a momentary narrative diversion created by some flashy editing?

Comets whiz through the pages, as do snippets of poetry, narrative diversions and gruesome details of the various contemporary murders by which De Quincey was fascinated.

The television show has taken a fair few narrative diversions throughout its run, and never more dramatically than it has across season five.

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Only a sense of the cosmic scale of Herodotus' moral vision, of the way it grafts the political onto the natural schema, can make sense of his distinctive style, of all the seemingly random detours and diversions — the narrative equivalents of the gimcrack souvenirs and brightly colored guidebooks and the flowered shirts.

With a series like "Buffy" -- where our heroine's struggle for a normal high school experience was always built into the narrative -- such mundane diversions didn't feel out of place, even opposite the horror elements of the show.

Even as we're told that dull, schlocky narrative devices are turning a diversion into a Serious Artform.

Doppelgänger is given a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five in a negative review published on the Film4 website, which praises the effects work and costume design but criticises the scenes with the character of Dr Hassler for their irrelevance to the main plot, and the subtext of the Rosses' troubled marriage as an unnecessary diversion from the narrative.

Despite the interest that collaborative authorship would thus hold, the idea still seemed somehow insulting to the reader: as though the novels were cooked up by focus groups bent on exploiting our narrative desire and producing escapist diversions.

But it's also a narrative crowded with light-hearted diversions – a haiku on cosmetic surgery, for instance, and a guest chapter by fellow comedian Seth Myers.