Sentence examples for narrative texture from inspiring English sources

Matos's narrative texture instantiates this principle, albeit perhaps unwittingly.

A scholar tracks down the diaspora of her town in a tale told with little flash, drama or narrative texture.

Why, then, might Austen feel the need to let Mrs Bennet so far into the narrative texture of a novel that clearly sees her as an object of ridicule?

As the pair continue their increasingly bumpy journey from Norway to Scotland, the movie throws in flashbacks, unprepared dramatic plot twists and even a heavy-handed symbol or two to provide some narrative texture.

The trick of this music is that the composed details, the subtle craft and narrative texture of it, come at you not through quietude but enveloping, mind-stun volume.

A list of characters' names, drastically abridged, might be enough to suggest the variety, and also the relative fineness, of the narrative texture: Ensenada Slim, Flaco the Bad, Dr. Buddy Tubeside, Petunia Leeway, Jason Velveeta, Scott Oof, Sledge Poteet, Leonard Jermaine Loosemeat (a.k.a. El Drano, anagram of Leonard, Delwyn Quightt, and Trillium Fortnight.

Joseph O'Connor's The Thrill of It All (Harvill Secker) uses layered narrative textures with both serious skill and engaging lightness so that the core drama emerges with clarity and wit.

Employing a resourceful variety of narrative textures and strategies, Mutis follows his hero through incidents of a Conradian exoticism; the narrative method, like that of Conrad, picturesquely involves the assembly of a coherent story from scattered documents, distant rumors, and elaborately couched secondhand recountings on betranced tropical verandas.

Focusing on the killers and their victims gave his narrative a texture and a shape – and some extraordinary pace.

Their final albums, "The Original Soundtrack" and "How Dare You!", explored increasingly complex narratives and textures, but their identity as a band seemed suddenly to implode.Messrs Godley and Creme quit in the summer of 1976, and became successful video makers.

The rich texture and narrative interest that result from this can best be illustrated by example.