Sentence examples for off from the narrative from inspiring English sources
And so when you read, say, the third essay in this book – a 12,000-word screed on the long-forgotten American journeyman Michael Joyce – you don't begrudge the need to break off from the narrative to take in a half-page footnote on the politics of players' appearance fees.
Every scene involving Eugene or besotted church helper Emily siphons off energy from the narrative – which was in no rush to begin with.
"The stories that branch off from the main narrative of Black Mirror will be more complex than the options in the kids' programming," the Bloomberg report reads, "though it remains to be seen just how complicated the show will be".
The tale jumps off from the main Mass Effect narrative that existed previously very well, managing to rejuvenate the series without discounting the closure writers of the last installment built into that game's plot.
These four words alone have been highlighted, as if Franzen's own painstaking ways of setting them off from his narrative (a colon, the caps, the olden-times diction and syntax) weren't enough to make ordinary readers pay attention to them.
It's quite nice not to have to chop off the lyrical elements from the narrative, which is what you do when writing as a journalist.
This may be a fair representation of the way young people experience the world, but it makes for some ungainly moments, and cuts off the narrative from the richer, more reflective emotional texture it deserves.
She hands off the narrative from one protagonist to another in a wild relay race that will end with the same characters with which it begins while dispensing with them for years at a time.
The series began with Serena's return from boarding school and throughout Gossip Girl's run the blonde and brunette society girls have traded off the narrative lead.
Eventually it lifts off from the syntax and logic we know, and all traces of narrative -- names, places, events -- drop away.
Convenient facts get omitted from the narrative.
