Sentence examples for narrative hand from inspiring English sources

A steadier narrative hand and a clearer satirical eye might have made the intrigue more intriguing and the humor more pointed.

I genuinely wouldn't mind any of this if the story were told with a stronger narrative hand and, crucially, more clarity of plot and tone.

The connection is left bare, dispatched with a narrative hand wave that nonetheless seems calculated, at least, to set up a sequel.

"A steadier narrative hand and a clearer satirical eye might have made the intrigue more intriguing and the humor more pointed," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in December.

In a narrative hand scroll by the late-13th-century artist Zhao Cangyun, two lost travelers are greeted by nymphs who lead them through the walls of a mountain to a land of unimaginable beauty.

Only Andrea Martin, as Frau Blucher, the housekeeper and lover of the late Victor von Frankenstein ("He vas my boyfriend"), manages to stamp her droll personality and her sense of timing on the hectic proceedings; Martin has been dealt a low narrative hand, but she turns it into a full house.

Monroe on the horizon, and it's all narrative hands on deck.

Michael Ondaatje's novels swing on fiction's rope -- they launch into a flight of myth, and are caught up once more in agile narrative hands.

There are stories about broken or cruel families, niche narratives hand-animated by microscopic teams, and surreal parables about humanity's relationship with technology.

With no narrative at hand I concocted my own: birds chirping at dawn, migrant workers trudging through fields, an evening dance in triple time, frogs peeping at twilight.

Like that of W. G. Sebald, Gornick's persona habitually discovers in specific works of art the drama at the center of her life; thus the interplay of life and art both form and inform the narrative at hand.