Sentence examples for narrative scheme from inspiring English sources
As the crime story develops, it turns into a far-fetched quasi-incestuous drama that leaves frustrating holes in the narrative scheme.
This narrative scheme, with its constant delay and foreboding, allows Brown's characters their lush digressions on death and desire, science and art, beauty and truth.
Susan Minot adapted her own 1998 novel in collaboration with Michael Cunningham, and the narrative scheme they have worked out is far too complicated for the relatively simple story that they have to tell.
The seven ages - infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, lawyer, pantaloon and "second childishness" - give him the opportunity to forage and stray over a continent of subject matter, while always being tethered to a narrative scheme.
(Scott) 'RENDITION' (R, 120 minutes) This complex melodrama about torture and terrorism is full of big ideas and good intentions, but these are undermined by a confusing, overly busy narrative scheme and uneven performances.
The narrative scheme, the brooding period atmosphere, the understated score (by David Byrne) and the precision of the acting also make the story seem more interesting than it is.
By and large, I enjoy being gulled by narrative scheming, but in this case I soon gave up, since none of the characters has a fate worth bothering with.
In De Palma's films, his own pleasure in conceiving and realizing his plans, his shots, his images, and his narrative schemes — his pleasure in offering praise to the cinematic godhead — is untroubled.
For example, the synthesis map shown in Figure 3 primarily used a narrative organizational scheme but incorporated some conceptual organization (frames 24 35 within that map).
Using a stop-start style that folds its energy into and onto itself over and again to disburse its narrative, the grander scheme of the novel is an exploration into the depths of several varieties of contemporary personal torment.
This jihadist narrative magnified any harebrained scheme it touched.
