Sentence examples for narrative load from inspiring English sources

Bennie's digressions don't all advance the story, but they're great fun and serve an important purpose by lightening the narrative load.

Only after McKay's words -- over images of athletes, police officers and firefighters -- did the narrative load shift to Costas, NBC's prime-time Olympic host for the fourth time.

In the former case, it must be acknowledged that most arson reporting responsibilities lie with the fire department, so low narrative load might be expected.

In true Weedgie style, Jeremiah gives it narrative loads, by turns intense, mischievous and sentimental, as he becomes the presence you want to avoid in the pub.

Black's pared-down style is not entirely pared down, and, once you look closely, you find that his narratives are loaded with poetic devices: "the fleshy heat of him pressing against her like the air of a midsummer day thick with the threat of thunder"; "The city seemed bewildered, like a man whose sight has suddenly failed".

And at the centre of it all, a morally loaded narrative about "looters".

As a narrative technique, this front-loading is surprisingly propulsive.

James Whorton Jr. loads his narrative with enough bars, tough waitresses and cigarettes to fill a Merle Haggard boxed set.

But by introducing a parallel plot, set in the same time frame and also having to do with a missing person, she loads the narrative with so much weight that it falls right into the pit she's dug for it.

He wants to create epic adventure narratives that are loaded with real-world information and allegorical significance.

It's a bleak and sober story in which trauma seeps through daily life, even if the narrative can't support its load of portent.