Sentence examples for narrative ellipses from inspiring English sources
Mr. Carruth also expresses this circularity through the editing, skipping through time to create narrative ellipses.
Skilfully told in narrative ellipses and nocturnal interiors, this sombre, modern-day noir sees Lindon dragged into nasty family business, and pitted against a wealthy tycoon.
As narrative ellipses go, it's not quite up there with "Reader, I married him", but it nips at Charlotte Bronte's heels.
Using 16mm materials recently discovered in a small museum in Buenos Aires, this "Masters of Cinema" rerelease reinstates key scenes excised by distributors against Lang's wishes after the film's initial German release, pushing the running time up to about 150 minutes, thereby "solving" many of the narrative ellipses that have troubled scholars and viewers for decades.
Wry and tender and delicately melancholic, "Woman on the Beach" shows a newly confident filmmaker again working near the top of his form after the disappointing "Tale of Cinema" (2005), even if the new film unfolds straightforwardly, with none of the narrative ellipses and puzzle-box complications, the flashbacks and parallel story lines of his earlier work.
The reader, then, is entirely in Plath's hands, which is not only tricky in narrative terms – ellipses come as standard in correspondence of which you get to read only one side – but also perilously unbalanced.
The Albanian tradition of blood feuds partly inspired Mr. Marston to make this story, yet what gives it shape are the more familiar conventions of the classic art film, including narrative ambiguity, ellipses and silence.
But he also makes intelligent use of narrative delay and ellipses that help build suspense and suspicion.
The story of the evolution of life on earth is an incomplete one, with many ellipses in the narrative of how simple organisms, some of which seem like little more than spontaneous experiments in organic chemistry, somehow grew to become the massively complex organisms that we see around us today.
Many moviegoers do the same, filling in the ellipses and even extending the narrative beyond the ending that has been imposed upon it.
