Sentence examples for narrative ploy from inspiring English sources

This narrative ploy arrives on Page 125, and not a moment too soon.

Ultimately, The Submission's opening narrative ploy, though a brilliant device for getting the story up and running, proves something of a limitation.

But the history of his early life, before Vietnam, is more than a narrative ploy to move the reader along to the disaster that changed the course of his life.

As a narrative ploy, this convolution is oddly and maybe even deliberately reminiscent of the haunting flashback to the young Michael Corleone -- Wave bye-bye, Michael -- in "The Godfather, Part II".

First with "Weeds" and now with "Orange Is the New Black," the television writer and producer Jenji Kohan has proved herself the master of an odd but successful narrative ploy: putting well-behaved middle-class white women in the middle of stories that typically feature rough nonwhite men.

There's a right way and a wrong way to do this; through a cisgender gaze, it's a narrative ploy that can come across as prying, in a sense that implicitly says "we know who you really are".

It is interesting, in the face of such burning beauties and griefs — so uncontrived, it seems — to consider the number of old, gear-grinding narrative ploys that Amis uses to move his novel forward.

As it happens, there were no cloakroom facilities at the cinema I saw it, so I brought mine into the auditorium with me, and it was only this that allowed me to appreciate the calculated narrative ploys and manipulations.