Sentence examples for narrative norms from inspiring English sources

A new genre of books for children tries to tweak narrative norms in a similar fashion.

More often, though, it's a question of how the movie organizes time and space and wreaks havoc with, or conforms to, narrative norms.

What happens, though, if a director doesn't direct your gaze in familiar ways, shuns classic compositions on the one hand or fast cuts and close-ups on the other, plays with or disrupts narrative norms?

However, it's also a subversion of narrative norms that lauds cinema's ability to offer consolation, as it compels the viewer to speculate upon the personality and domestic situation that prompts each woman's reaction to the unseen scenario.

(Ed: It did!) Especially in this very politicized Hugo context, to give the award to this translated Chinese novel, which is interesting, very much not written according to the narrative norms of contemporary Western science-fiction novels.

As befits one of the most unpredictable writers of his day, Ballard's story departs from conventional narrative norms.

While some games have a "first-person mode" in which the screen really does represent the field of vision of the game's main character, the narrative norm in games, in literary terms, is more like a "close third person": you are not the character taking action; you are standing behind that person, looking over his or her shoulder.

This means that the legitimacy of national welfare-state based forms of solidarity are – due to being tied up with nation-state formation – strongly predicated on the perceived cultural homogeneity of nation-state populations, which is nurtured through intergenerational transfers of historical narratives, norms and values within relatively stable national political communities.

Tenses shift confusingly as Wright describes an imagined future event so compellingly real to her protagonist that it becomes accomplished fact: begun in the conditional but quickly modulating into the past tense, her succinct tale of vengeance and remorse simultaneously postdates, prefigures and temporarily supplants the larger narrative of Norm's actual voyage.

Preminger's hallucinatory images dissolve narrative and moral norms alike in a utopian vision that has yet to be fulfilled in movies or in society at large.

Just as in the case of the escalated attention paid to an isolated holiday shooting, like this week's in New Orleans or last week's in Louisville, Kentucky, this goes to show how much fear and attention is won by a compelling narrative of perverted norms and evil actors.