Sentence examples for narrative picks from inspiring English sources

As the race approaches, however, the narrative picks up speed.

The narrative picks up steam when it turns from what drew these men together to what tore them apart.

IT is in the second part of his story, "Search," that Mr. Clarke's narrative picks up steam.

Carroll's narrative picks up steam with the arrival of Constantine and the fusion of Christianity with imperial power.

The narrative picks up speed when Rosemary becomes interested in the possible discovery of a Melville novel that was supposedly lost in a fire in 1853.

Shukert's stop-offs in Paris, Zurich and Vienna are prelude to Amsterdam, where she spends the most time, and where the narrative picks up steam.

These are riveting stories not just because Greene, a master of narrative, picked good ones, but because she explains just how these relationships work at both ends of the leash.

But a narrative by itself might not explain anything; if it is explanatory, it is because earlier events mentioned in the narrative pick out the causes of later events.

According to this narrative, picked up by the media, the poor are, as Wilson writes, considered lazy and slothful, un-American and unworthy of citizenship.

"9/11: The Firemen's Story" picks up the narrative where "Voices From the Air" ends, recounting heroic and anguishing stories about New York City firefighters.

A second installment of his memoirs, "The Dream," published in 2008, continued his life story, picking up the narrative with the family's move to Chicago in 1922 and describing Mr. Bernstein's struggles to become a writer.