Sentence examples for narrative substance from inspiring English sources

Maybe Ms. Goldin should consider supplementing her images with writing, to give them more narrative substance.

At his core, he remains a storyteller who refuses to let his lyrical style overwhelm the narrative substance of his plots.

These novels have everything: narrative substance, intensely felt landscapes, humour, tenderness, deep human insight, intellectual argument and language that is alive at every point.

Working with her own collection of about 400 hats and headdresses, she selected 104 mostly contemporary examples that possess narrative substance and reflect a global perspective.

He wasn't afraid of letting his story play out at epic length, but this narrative substance did not preclude an extraordinary and compelling intimacy.

There's plenty of imagination and comedy, but it takes a serious turn when the rose-tinted urban groove gives way to images of riot shields and decaying concrete - only there's not enough narrative substance to make an impact.

The script tells the story of a woman who hitches a ride from a trucker; but to boil it down to its narrative essence is to lose its substance.

Something like J. J. Abrams Star Trekk reboot gets away with this because the story and the characters are prominent and control the narrative, the substance, rather than being dominated by special effects.

In these excerpts from interviews with Vicki, a methamphetamine user, and Kim, who was using alcohol and marijuana, both women express their hope that being up-front with doctors would help them be perceived as good mothers who were concerned about the health of their fetuses, resisting the master narrative of substance-using mothers who are selfish and unconcerned.

We need ways to filter real-time story-telling and reporting so we can identify narratives that have substance and reject those that are ephemeral, partial, distorted, or trivial.

Opera is about the music; few people speak of Da Ponte's Don Giovanni or Piave's La Traviata, though it is true that, before the first note can be brought to the score, the librettist will have written a full-length drama: narrative, characters, dialogue – the substance of the piece and its armature.