Sentence examples for narrative essence from inspiring English sources

Like the Lambs' retellings, this "Lear" extracts a streamlined narrative essence from a play that often in production baffles audiences, with all the subterfuges, disguises and shifting allegiances.

The script tells the story of a woman who hitches a ride from a trucker; but to boil it down to its narrative essence is to lose its substance.

So Bailey was rejecting the dominant (feminine essence) narrative of MTF transgenderism, and simultaneously rejecting the two dominant narratives of sex and gender identities, namely biological determinism and social constructivism.

It certainly does seem to be the case that Bailey's book and Blanchard's theory continue to be largely ignored in the popularized gender psychology literature, literature that generally accepts and promotes the feminine essence narrative as the one and only true story of MTF transsexualism.

Given these two dominant narratives about sex and gender, a number of critics assumed that, if Bailey was rejecting the feminine essence narrative of transsexualism, he must be collapsing gender identity and sex that is, he must be a biological determinist who assumes that, if you're born genetically male, your gender identity will clearly be masculine (in spite of whatever you ultimately claim).

Ellen Cornfield, another former dancer, mentioning "a river of feeling" in some Cunningham works, spoke of how that notion showed "not a linear narrative but an essence and form of drama".

The 10- to 15-minute excerpts from a dozen or so Italian classics are edited so precisely that with the addition of Mr. Scorsese's comments, you are left with the stylistic, narrative and emotional essence of each one.

Had Lawrence supported the feminine essence narrative over Blanchard's taxonomy, one could easily imagine Conway, James, and the like circling wagons to protect their fellow transwoman.

Bailey's rejection of the feminine essence narrative has led a number of readers (and non-readers) to incorrectly assume that he has also rejected SRS.

Importantly, as Lawrence has pointed out, there exists an almost invisible group of people for whom the universalizing of the feminine essence narrative may (ironically) act as a barrier to beneficial sex changes.

Putting aside for a moment the whole problem of the scientific truth about MTF transsexuality, I'm not sure that the simplistic feminine essence narrative is necessarily any better for transwomen than Blanchard's typology.