Sentence examples for odd narrative from inspiring English sources

And the fact that Patroclus dies before the end of the story forces Miller into an odd narrative corner indeed.

This odd narrative fantasy sometimes anticipates 20th-century poetry in its fragmented, nontraditional structure and was well received in its time.

The journey of Mr. Espinosa and Mr. Blunt from inmates to fugitives and back has made for an odd narrative that grew even more curious in recent days.

4 Babies What makes many of Pulp's finest singles so enchanting is that they unfold like little short stories, full of odd narrative bumps and lovable characters, with Cocker coming on like some sort of northern JD Salinger.

She promptly skips captivity before, in an odd narrative jump, she and other children end up out at sea, visiting the Elysian Fields Floating Catfish Shack – a maritime brothel where, amid more vintage jazz, the little girls find mother surrogates to dance with in a tender, highly coloured idyll.

Ruth's mostly lesbian party is an unruly occasion of near affairs and remembered affairs in which odd narrative elements reappear -- an overheard conversation about hemorrhoids; a flirtatious, heavily accented fitness trainer's offer to "read" the mysterious red bumps that have broken out on Ruth's arms.

How can one understand the first section of "The Sound and the Fury" — an odd, fragmented narrative told from the point of view of the retarded Benjy — without reading the rest of the novel?

It was an odd, convenient narrative coming at a time when she needed it.

He utilizes the supersize scale and saturated color of conceptualism, and his odd, implied narratives strongly recall the work of artists like Jeff Wall.

The fourth feature from the Finnish director Klaus Haro (whose screenplay is based on an original script by Jaana Makkonen), "Letters" transforms a picture-postcard location and odd-couple narrative into a pretty, and pretty predictable, snooze.

So it's odd that a narrative of crisis, of a systemic failure, in American education is currently so persuasive.