Sentence examples for narrative mastery from inspiring English sources

Despite these pauses, Ms. Wilson maintained a steady narrative mastery.

Yet it was less in such details as in its striking overview that the integrity of Bostridge's interpretation registered, floodlit by his combination of narrative mastery with apparent spontaneity.

Whether it's because they were less active letter writers and diary keepers than their English contemporary Thomas Cromwell, or because they lacked his innate subtlety and intellectualism, or because Sarah Dunant — adroit as she is — falls short of Mantel's narrative mastery, neither Rodrigo nor Cesare speaks in a voice as sustained and nuanced as the one Mantel conjured for her central character.

This thoroughly emo body-swap fantasia, a sizable hit on home turf, demonstrates that he's inherited much of his predecessor's artistry and charm, but not yet his narrative mastery – nor, crucially, that magic that distinguishes lasting artworks from well-drawn 'toons for teens.

Now we have tome-worthy games that display sheer narrative mastery and penmanship that heightens the play experience into the stratosphere.

The Mark Twainish "Mud," in which two boys living on a river make an alliance with a man in hiding (McConaughey again), demonstrates continued narrative and atmospheric mastery by the director Jeff Nichols, who made the filled-with-foreboding "Take Shelter," in 2011.

Superiority of male vision and male mastery of narrative is evident.

I was also drawn to Rodney Jones's "Elegy for the Southern Drawl" for its mastery of narrative.

It was an astonishment, a virtual leap, as Michener read the first flawless lines of A Farewell to Arms, with such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose.

"Emma", too, is universally praised for its extraordinary mastery of narrative form, and for making readers love its flawed, and even unlikeable, heroine; she who attempts to control the lives of those around her but is blinded by her own self-satisfaction.

Yordan Yovkov, novelist and playwright, excelled at describing the effects of war, the subject of his early masterpiece, Zemlyatsi (1915); his short stories "Staroplaninski legendi" (1927) and "Vecheri v Antimovskiya khan" (1928; "Evenings in the Antimovo Inn") display deep insight into the Bulgarian mind and a classical mastery of narrative prose.