Sentence examples for narrative stops from inspiring English sources
Although the Anabasis narrative stops at this point and further details are lacking, he clearly became closely involved with senior Spartans, notably (after 396) King Agesilaus II.
Abruptly, each time, the narrative stops, and a new swirl of imagery appears — in watercolor, or Claymation, or a wash of finger paint — often with background music that makes the words, in a rather hurried voiceover, seem incidental.
At this point Thucydides' main narrative stops for five crucial years, at the end of which tension between Corinth and Athens was again high, on the eve of the great Peloponnesian War.
Sometimes the characters come close; in one story a musician makes friends with an elderly neighbour, but the narrative stops short of sentiment, instead returning us sharply to reality with its kind of endings and half redemptions.
The narrative stops too abruptly, before publication in the Guardian and the New York Times of the third and most important set of leaks he had acquired (the state department cables), and the subsequent legal pursuit of Assange on the sex complaints.
And the authors don't help matters by failing to adequately signpost their narrative, stopping their recounting of events to explain why various moments were particularly important.
For a memoir that is so much about water, its narrative, stop-start and heavily reliant on reminiscence, does not always flow.
Maybe if the narrative stopped preaching to the choir and invited men to join the conversation, we'd see a shift in societal action.
His film-making strengths – as displayed in Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, and Uncle Boonmee itself – are a structural audacity that often results in narratives stopping dead, switching characters, or reformatting themselves; a languid, lyrical shooting style; and an unhurried investigation of memory and place.
His intention, we are told, was to set up a military-dominated government which would shoot civilian politicians for corruption.For this English-language edition, the authors have added a brief postscript to a narrative that stops with their subject's victory in a recall referendum in August 2004.
