Sentence examples for narrative track from inspiring English sources
Kazan's straight talk cajoled, provoked, cudgelled; it kept Williams on narrative track and reigned in his lyrical excess.
On a simultaneous narrative track, he has to prove to his police interrogators that he, a scarcely educated Mumbai "slum dog", has not been cheating.
What I got was both conventional and confused — an uneasy mixture of biographical snapshots and ham-handed moralism, arrayed in a dual narrative track in which Biggie (Jamal Woolard) haplessly slides toward death as he slowly, and with many steps backward, rises spiritually toward manhood.
Still, with nonliteral communication doing most of the work, it's a difficult balance to strike between keeping an audience on narrative track and burdening it with redundance, which is to say that the element of the show that doesn't work is the script.
THE SKY ROAD, by Ken MacLeod (Tor/ Tom Doherty, $24.95), runs on parallel narrative tracks.
The characters' inner lives are not what matters: instead, the narrative tracks their movement relentlessly.
This is left poised as the narrative tracks back three months earlier to Emily's mental travails.
They capture the haunted, fractured half-lives of adulterers, torn between two beds, two narrative tracks, two sets of memories.
"A Love Story" alternately pursues two narrative tracks — the present day, in which Cass negotiates her painful relationships with Ollie and Heather, and the recent past, in which she attempted a solo bicycle trip from Chicago to California with Julia's ashes, planning to scatter them in the ocean.
In the first twenty minutes or so of "Babel," there are three narrative tracks: two Moroccan boys with a high-powered rifle that was left in the mountains by a vacationing Japanese hunter; a wealthy American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) on a tour-bus holiday in the same mountains; and the Americans' Mexican housekeeper and their young children back in San Diego.
While one strand of the narrative tracks the dead couple's decomposition, another spools back through the day of their death, dramatizing first their murder, then their trip to the dunes and so on, while another follows the progress of their initial meeting, 30 years earlier, on these same dunes while doing fieldwork.
