Sentence examples for narrative of time from inspiring English sources

"Chasin the Trane," in 1961, proved a solo could sound gloriously unplanned, as if the musician were actually leaving the present tense and going into the subconscious, where the narrative of time didn't matter; Coltrane's only preserved remarks about the tune's recorded version are to the effect that he was surprised by how long it was.

Her sexual encounters with Tuttle, like her efforts to get him to talk like Rey, seem like futile efforts to turn back the clock, to unravel the merciless forward-marching narrative of time: she wants to believe that she can prevent Rey's fateful trip to New York, that she takes his car keys, "hides them, hammers them, beats them, eats them, buries them in the bone soil".

More than twenty years after the backwards narrative of Time's Arrow (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991) comes The Zone of Interest.

Mr. Amis said he'd like another week with the complexities of the backward narrative of "Time's Arrow," but would leave "the mess of the first four novels" alone.

Her recipes are lyrical narratives of time spent over the stove, the magic described but only sparingly explained.

Proulx, who is 75, has picked this patch of Wyoming for her dream home – rather than, say, a retirement complex in Florida – precisely because it is strung with those deep narratives of time and place that she has made her own.

These questions – tied up in the narrative trickiness of time travel – are likely to get the fan forums bubbling.

"Carry Me Across the Water" is a short book, and it remains, despite its narrative sweep of time and geography, something of a chamber piece.

William Wells Brown's was greeted with immediate popularity when published in 1847, being the second most read slave narrative of its time (behind that of Frederick Douglass).

Ferelith Hordon, Wandsworth children's librarian and chair of the Carnegie judging panel, said each of the shortlisted novels offered "a compelling narrative of its time", adding "the quality of their writing ensures that the big questions are always treated in a way that is both thoughtful and completely absorbing".

The most disturbing dystopian narrative of our time is no work of fiction.