Sentence examples for narrative striptease from inspiring English sources
It's a narrative striptease.
This smart, slippery novel is a narrative striptease, as a professor listens in on the sessions between the therapist next door and her patients.
But, as Jolie Pitt takes her time with a slo-mo narrative striptease concerning what's gone wrong with this marriage, and how the happy newlywed couple in the next room – there's a peephole – might help save it, one has time to ponder what kind of movie she thinks she's making.
(When her brother-in-law calls some fancy shoes "chic," she says, "Chic means boring," and then side-eyes the camera and adds, sotto voce, "Don't tell the French!") Such moments turn the viewer into Fleabag's new best friend, with whom she's trying to share a private story about the origins of her pain, the details of which unfold gradually in a subtle narrative striptease.
While others would have disingenuously shied away from the male spectacle offered by the Striptease-inflected narrative, Soderbergh makes sure his audience can see what all the fuss is about, lending as much screen time to the G-stringed routines as would be taken for granted in any gender-reversed B-movie.
There was bad striptease.
"Striptease" is more obviously grim.
Burlesque was about the striptease.
No one does a striptease.
He called it "architectural striptease".
