Sentence examples for narrative presents from inspiring English sources

The fugitive-slave narrative presents a curious paradox.

It is another thing when a narrative presents information that many whites might not wish to hear or to accept.

Lurching out into the world like Dr. Frankenstein's monster, the narrative presents itself as a gaslight thriller, à la Wilkie Collins, about a stage magician-cum-detective, Edward Moon, who is investigating the mysterious deaths of London gents slumming in the city's Dickensian fleshpots.

It's a celebration that is hard-won, often vivid, sometimes moving, comic and sweet, but that has to be treated with at least a little unease when you consider how the narrative presents us with its villain, the outsider, who is identified by Susie's family by instinct after they simply perceive the man to be a little odd, and after odd, malevolent.

The historical time that narrative presents, i.e., human time as it unfolds in time, is an interpersonal, public time.

When a straightforward narrative presents itself, we rejoice, but when it doesn't -- or hasn't yet -- we have to present our results anyway.

From whose perspective is the narrative presented?

The novel's narrative present begins in November 2008.

Most of the worst novels were written in the first person narrative present tense.

The story is told in the narrative present as a recollection of past events by the now-adult Benjamin, the fourth brother.

While they all delivered strong statements during their closing remarks, Clinton's big-picture narrative presented a very clear and compelling image of her America.