Sentence examples for narrative surprises from inspiring English sources

There are narrative surprises too.

The storytelling is riveting, and the information that leads to the narrative surprises is doled out in a way that feels satisfying and fair.

One gets the point of Ionesco's parable, but it has few of the narrative surprises found in a fictional equivalent such as Animal Farm.

At the end of the opening section, however, the novel springs a number of narrative surprises, switching channels without leaving the network it's established.

Radcliffe also has the precious gift, vital in a play full of narrative surprises, of seeming artful and vulnerable at the same time.

Somewhat muted, it has few true surprises, which may be intentional because a familiarity with the yakuza, its rituals, violence and code helps make the ensuing narrative surprises pop.

It is hard to think of another filmmaker so utterly committed to the predictable manufacture of narrative surprise.

In the last few pages of this long novel, Shriver springs a narrative surprise (though a fair surprise) that will justify the awkwardness of the literary form.

So when Max sent me his screenplay, I recognised the spirit, characters and atmosphere – and encountered a narrative surprise on every page.

The fact that We Need to Talk About Kevin supplies its first-time reader with a narrative surprise near its end is the more striking because of our prior knowledge of what the Greeks would have called its "catastrophe".

I mean it as a compliment when I say there are echoes of Rattigan in Holman's ability to spring a narrative surprise and convey the strong emotions lurking behind English understatement.