Sentence examples for narrative principles from inspiring English sources

"Narrative is our ultimate top-down strategy in watching a movie," he wrote back, "specifically, I think, classical narrative principles".

It is even possible to see the maqāmah genre (see below The concept of adab: Narratives of the imagination) as a pastiche of the khabar's narrative principles.

Bellow overthrows everything: compositional choices grounded in narrative principles of harmony and order, a novelistic ethos indebted to Kafka's "The Trial" and Dostoyevsky's "The Double" and "The Eternal Husband," as well as a moral perspective that can hardly be said to derive from delight in the flash, color, and plenty of existence.

Its narrative principles might perhaps be described as old-fashioned in that their aim is to tell the story – in a manner that confers a beneficent kind of coherence on the business of living – of several people over a considerable number of years; people who, moreover, are bound voluntarily by friendship rather than forcibly by blood.

She is like a walking narrative principle.

This mobility of identification becomes a narrative principle.

The stories (lithographed in little oblong albums containing up to 100 pages) are purposefully purposeless, flow with calculated non sequiturs, and make digression a narrative principle.

He is a master of that deeper narrative principle: get your audience where they want to go, but not in the way they expect.

(Scott) 'Contraband' (R, 1 50) Implausibility as a defining narrative principle is part of the kick of this mostly thrill-free thriller about a New Orleans smuggler (Mark Wahlberg), as is the director Baltasar Kormakur's fondness for industrial grunge.

It's a form, as is often noted, that makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange, a narrative principle that Mr. Kosinski embraces again and again with niceties like Jack's Yankee baseball cap and Jack and Victoria's candlelight dinners.

(Manohla Dargis) 'Contraband' (R, 1 50) Implausibility as a defining narrative principle is part of the kick of this mostly thrill-free thriller about a New Orleans smuggler (Mark Wahlberg), as is the director Baltasar Korm?r's fondness for industrial grunge.