Sentence examples for narratives of time from inspiring English sources

Her recipes are lyrical narratives of time spent over the stove, the magic described but only sparingly explained.

Proulx, who is 75, has picked this patch of Wyoming for her dream home – rather than, say, a retirement complex in Florida – precisely because it is strung with those deep narratives of time and place that she has made her own.

More than twenty years after the backwards narrative of Time's Arrow (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991) comes The Zone of Interest.

Mr. Amis said he'd like another week with the complexities of the backward narrative of "Time's Arrow," but would leave "the mess of the first four novels" alone.

"Chasin the Trane," in 1961, proved a solo could sound gloriously unplanned, as if the musician were actually leaving the present tense and going into the subconscious, where the narrative of time didn't matter; Coltrane's only preserved remarks about the tune's recorded version are to the effect that he was surprised by how long it was.

Her sexual encounters with Tuttle, like her efforts to get him to talk like Rey, seem like futile efforts to turn back the clock, to unravel the merciless forward-marching narrative of time: she wants to believe that she can prevent Rey's fateful trip to New York, that she takes his car keys, "hides them, hammers them, beats them, eats them, buries them in the bone soil".

The survivor's story is one of the predominant narratives of our time.

But Facebook's I.P.O. will begin a new chapter — indeed, a new volume — in one of the great business narratives of our time.

Of such native peoples, Fleming tells us that "when they had a chance they wrote clear, perceptive and sometimes beautiful narratives of the time they spent with the interloper.

Dominant narratives of the time were east west relations, meaning those between the United States and the Soviet bloc, and north south relations, meaning those between industrial and developing nations.

The Arab world, like any other, was not best understood by focussing exclusively on its wars and conflicts (although he did not shy away from any of those, or whitewash their ugliness), but through its longer, subtler narratives of family, time, and transition.