Sentence examples for narrative maintains from inspiring English sources

The Horatio Alger narrative maintains its hold in the United States.

And like every dual national, his narrative maintains a foot in two places.

The prevailing Huckabee narrative maintains that he's benefiting strictly from the loyalty of the religious right.

Bundling relentlessly forward, or cutting erratically between timeframes, the narrative maintains its pace at the expense of both craft and credibility.

The narrative maintains a semblance of balance until the final half-hour, when it leaps from a brisk trot into a full gallop, and coherence goes by the wayside.

The narrative maintains an elegiac tone while establishing a split-focus perspective on two families, one white and one black, who stay within the boundaries of their adjacent neighborhoods until one summer night in 1972 when three white boys take a joyride to the black side of town.

It defaults to a lower level that still plays into the terrorist narrative and maintains relevance".

Throughout the novel, the omniscient narrative voice maintains an ironic distance, slipping playfully among a fairly large cast of characters.

Our cultural understanding of violence and gender is shaped by a relentless, binary narrative that maintains our unconscious, collective belief that men are problems and women have problems.

We can't laugh at him — or do anything else at him; we have to remain with him, on his side, to root for this flawed and humorous hero and believe in his essentially un-humbled importance.As a comedy The Humbling gets laughs, as a drama it maintains its narrative hold.

Whether there are particular types of learners who need that straight narrative to maintain concentration, and then by telling a story you are actually distracting them and therefore they disengage with the lecture; I guess that's the only downside.