Sentence examples for narrative driver from inspiring English sources

Both Jon and Meg are social outliers, and the prospect of their meeting is the novel's key narrative driver.

No matter how many left-leaning thinkers of the previous generation passionately and convincingly conflated notions of race and class, I would not have predicted this usurping of the major narrative driver in my life.

Difference, when it existed, was often only a narrative driver of change, something to be fought and overcome – the fat character finding happiness by losing weight, the nerd obtaining a life-changing makeover.

And it works very well as a narrative driver but, much more importantly I think, as a device to explore the many complexities about the first world war, at home and on the battlefields, from which mythologisers too readily turn away.

That Bucky is such a one-dimensional character makes for a pallid, predictable story line in which the random workings of fate and the fate of temperament — rather than genuine free choice — are the narrative drivers.

"She wove it together to make this really beautiful narrative," says Driver, and it's clear from her eyes that the memory's still fresh.

And it is quite possible that the women-are-safer-drivers narrative has been used as an excuse to charge young men, who often have more disposable income, at a significant premium.

Generating a compelling narrative for his drivers would be a major win for the new Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi.

This documentary entices viewers into its narrative, about a taxi driver named Dilawar who was taken to Bagram prison in Afghanistan on suspicion of terrorism, beaten by his American captors even after they had reason to believe he was innocent, and died there.

Some of these problems can be addressed through what experts call narrative driving: having adult drivers point out to teenage passengers examples of unsafe driving and explain to them how they are dealing with distractions on the road.

This lean and lethal noir narrative finds Sallis's antihero, Driver, in Phoenix, trying to look invisible after taking down four men with murder in mind.