Sentence examples for narrative figures from inspiring English sources

ERASERHEAD Less a straight story than a surrealistic assemblage, "Eraserhead" brings together many of the now-familiar Lynchian visual themes and narrative figures, including the naïve man, the slatternly woman, the shabby period furniture, the contorted flesh and forms, the yawning orifices and oozing, leaking fluids.

Less a straight story than a surrealistic assemblage, "Eraserhead" brings together many of the now-familiar Lynchian visual themes and narrative figures, including the naïve man, the slatternly woman, the shabby period furniture, the contorted flesh and forms, the yawning orifices and oozing, leaking fluids.

(It also uses some tried and true film techniques, including that scary movie staple, the bad guy's point-of-view shot.) Actually, according to the production notes, "Hollow Man" belongs to an even older tradition, since "the theme of invisibility is familiar in premodern narrative," figuring prominently, for example, in the second book of Plato's "Republic".

And many other films employ this narrative figure to investigate other aspects of racism and possibilities for its overcoming.

"I started as a painter, focusing on narrative figure painting," Narrett explained to The Huffington Post.

Data has been presented in narrative form including tables and figures to aid in data presentation where appropriate.

If the identified studies are of substantial heterogeneity and where statistical pooling is not possible, the findings will be presented in narrative form including tables and figures to aid in data presentation where appropriate.

The men fleeing our helicopter were transformed by his camera, their escape now framed as an elegiac narrative: solitary figures traversing an apocalyptic topography.

The financial world, so fond of representing its own interests as manifestations of natural law, has muddled its narrative, faked figures, played the usual shell game.

The general thrust of pure semiotics is a kind of linguistics-based social theory; if language shapes our thought, and our thought shapes our culture, then if we are looking for a master key to make sense of culture, it makes sense to start with the fundamental structures of language itself: signs, symbols, metaphors, narrative devices, figures of speech.

One is a half-dozen narratives by figures out of whom the book's characters are reincarnated: not only is the purpose elusive but the passages are also near unreadable.