Sentence examples for obscure narrative from inspiring English sources

Or Jane Carlyle's uncertainty, after having read the lengthy, obscure narrative poem Sordello, as to whether Sordello was "a man, a city, or a book".

Its elaborate and sometimes obscure narrative is balanced by instances of transporting beauty, drama, showmanship and some of cinema's weirdest moments of visual extravagance in terms of costume, maquillage and camera work.

Nobody's cell phone lights up while driving their Audi on the GW Parkway, or the other sorts of obscure narrative details that populate a certain genre of Washington insider literature.

The fact that you can't decide is what makes it most effective, and although the track's mood pushes and pulls in density buoyed by kinetically shuffling, batida-esque rhythms it never strays far from that elliptical, obscure narrative.

Mr. Rauch's paintings are often described as Surrealist, perhaps because their obscure narratives originate in his dreams.

To some critics Mr. Tabucchi's work was obscure, insufficiently narrative and overfilled with looming portents.

So there is much to value here, if you can follow the shifting time sequences that often obscure the narrative flow.

If the differences between new and soured love don't register meaningfully, though, it's because the grown-ups are drawn too broadly and without the nuance — the expository fights are particularly off key — that might obscure the narrative schema.

Film noirs tend to have unusually convoluted story lines, frequently involving flashbacks and other editing techniques that disrupt and sometimes obscure the narrative sequence.

But in their second opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer" (1991), Mr Sellars seemed to take a worrying precedence, creating a hyperactive melange which actually obscured the narrative and swamped the music.

But as the story grows more diffuse and complicated in the second act, Mr. Doyle's presentational approach — much of the dialogue is directed at the audience, often with the actors ranged across the front of the stage — begins to drain the play of theatrical energy and sometimes obscures the narrative too.