Presented completely outside the narrative's time frame, these haunting, disconnected images seem like something out of a Jean Cocteau film.
At this point, Mr. Carey resorts to what comes easily to him but is so often a cheap trick for other writers: he adds a parallel narrative in a different time frame.
Whereas choreographers making narrative ballets can mold the time frame of the stories as they wish, an opera's narrative pace is determined by a specific libretto.
Many aspects of the revision fell into place once I was able to place the narrative within a very specific time frame.
She creates narrative momentum despite the expansive time frame, because holding the novel together is the question of whether Hemingway will ever find a woman to last the course.
In sport, there's a time frame, a narrative arc, a plot, sometimes a subplot, rising action, a climax too, among other things.
"We do make mistakes but often what are called 'mistakes' are conscious decisions made for reasons of budget, logistics or narrative, like compressing time frames, shooting in a different location to the actual event, or reducing the cast of characters".
The dangerous friendship between an angry black youth and the rebellious daughter of a Kansas City judge leads to murder in this lyrical first novel, whose fluid time frame and shifting narrative voice offer an intimate look at the complex kinships of people who define themselves by their regional ties.
There is nothing vivid, stirring or original about Ms. Smiley's references to historical events — they feel like rote, secondhand observations, shoehorned into the narrative in a mechanical effort to create a time frame.
Our narrative uses the Bushwig festival, the first and second annual, as a bounded time frame for the contemporary story, which we couch in the larger historical narrative of Warhol, Vaccaro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous and the Wigstock Festival.
