Sentence examples for narrative passage from inspiring English sources

Despite having some terrorists to deal with, Carrie said yes, and thus ensued a narrative passage in which the CIA's mission to implicate the mastermind of a bombing that killed hundreds of people depended on whether a thug saw Carrie rolling up a yoga mat.

A narrative passage containing 327 words was constructed with particular attention to different inflectional endings and types of derived words.

The narrative passages, or sections dealing with social and legislative affairs, appear in a prose format.

Narrative passages of the text unfold in hauntingly lyrical choral spans quivering with astringent dissonance.

The tonal difference between the narrative passages and the dialogue is sharp (and often very funny).

Such oral narrative devices go hand in hand with the book's use of non-standard English, the island dialect used in both dialogue and narrative passages.

It contains a good deal of flattery of the imperial family and much patriotism, for which the undoubted brilliance of the narrative passages does not altogether atone.

Because of the graphic form, descriptive words or narrative passages are few, so the drawings are our principal route into understanding the characters and following their stories.

But earlier this year Mr. Ambrose was accused of ethical lapses for having employed some narrative passages in his books that closely paralleled previously published accounts.

"Madame Melville" comes perilously close to falling into the clichés it skirts, and some of the narrative passages sound gratingly artificial.

Even in narrative passages, Bohince lets participles do the work of predicates: "In the single room of a bathtub, humming 'Love / Me Tender' to hear a sullen human / voice.