Sentence examples for narrative tools from inspiring English sources

Researchers have lately gathered abundant evidence that female friendship is one of nature's preferred narrative tools.

Cohen makes no attempt to sort out versions of the past and offers no narrative tools to help readers understand where a particular account or detail comes from.

In just the first few pages, Ware invents new narrative tools to describe learning to recognize your own name, discovering colors, and what it feels like when you see your father hit your mother.

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, who proved that even a carnival barker can sing a musical soliloquy, his work suggests that hip-hop's narrative tools will function well beyond one generation's concerns.

Agali's experience in Guatemala demonstrates the effectiveness of incorporating storytelling into girl-centered advocacy, and shows that documenting development projects can be done using participatory, narrative tools that complement the rigorous qualitative analysis already standard in the field.

It's often said that Evans went on to apply the narrative tools of literature to his photographic work, and he commonly cited the influence of writers, including, prominently, Gustave Flaubert, whose realism, naturalism, and "non-subjectivity" Evans felt he'd incorporated "almost unconsciously".

But Ayoade shows nothing of the hustler's hustle, no backstage and no behind-the-scenes and no how-to; the character is just a narrative tool.

For "Choke" and "Winter Belly," performed last year at Danspace Project, Mr. O'Connor left out the dialogue and allowed his movement to serve as the sole narrative tool.

For the filmmakers, 3-D is a narrative tool, which works only if what it is enhancing is strong to begin with.

There's his masterful, stylistically complex writing: he can wield the second person as an effective narrative tool, then engage the royal "we" as a gentle didactic, all in the space of a page.

It's a comedy sketch that becomes a primary narrative tool here, a redundancy that goes unaided by Ulu Grosbard's punchless direction and a set -- its one notable feature is a haphazardly hung window -- that is without atmospheric suggestion of any kind.