Sentence examples for narrative expectations from inspiring English sources

But those willing to suspend conventional narrative expectations should revel in this two-hour, largely nonverbal immersion in pure cinema.

DV8 Physical Theatre have always been avant-garde rule-breakers and this latest verbatim piece smashes narrative expectations.

With the play's glib exposition, which smacks of romantic comedy, Greenberg reverses our narrative expectations and spins a psychologically astute, compelling study of narcissistic delusion, in which the payoff is not revenge but revelation about the stranglehold of symbiosis.

It's not a matter of suspense: the swaths of elaborate writing, multifarious implication, magic realist butterflying and two subplots -- both connected to Earl's death -- muffle any mere narrative expectations on the reader's part.

His great movie, Salvatore Giuliano (1962) is a very mysterious film, almost an account of a secular martyrdom, but one that upends our narrative expectations of biopics – and probably any other kind of film.

By breaking taboos regarding narrative expectations, antiheroic protagonists, and the depiction of graphic violence, Bonnie and Clyde helped set the stage for rebellious youth-oriented films such as Easy Rider (1969) and for a generation of iconoclastic American filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, and Hal Ashby.

There have been ingenious moments of subverted narrative expectation, followed rapidly by inexcusably honking dialogue.

Her method is to create a narrative expectation without fulfilling it.

Perhaps more important, these close-ups create a sense of narrative expectation that the face will soon be attached to a name, actions, emotions and the inevitable story.

Or perhaps Kiarostami's own masterpiece A Taste of Cherry, whose ending finally takes us over the cliff edge of narrative expectation, though in a more interesting, and heartstopping way.

I vaguely understood that this surreal "lengthening" effect had something to do with the film's ending, though without wondering: "Is there a new narrative expectation of freakish tallness in the way we consume cinema?" Well, however chaotically presented they were, films on TV were a benign gateway drug.