Sentence examples for ordinary narrative from inspiring English sources

Features are sex films with some sort of claim to the ordinary narrative: characterisation, storyline.

What these opening passages also announce is that Mr. Currie is a startlingly talented writer whose book will pay no heed to ordinary narrative conventions.

The catchall description postmodern is often applied to Mr. Handke, and the term seems to have something to do with his rejection of conventional narrative, though some writers, like the French "new novelists" Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarrault and others, abandoned ordinary narrative long before both Mr. Handke and the term postmodern became fashionable.

Throughout, he adorns the film with cutesy parodies of many of Godard's films from the nineteen-sixties; these tricks intrude into the otherwise ordinary narrative fabric, as if to affirm that he has seen the films but without offering any indication that he has absorbed their substance or their significance.

As I work, I add elements to the image to build an "out of the ordinary" narrative from a photo taken in a very ordinary place, my bedroom, or studio, or office.

With a good notion of how hard it is to make ordinary film narrative unnoticeably subtle ("story, story, story or, How can we do it to them so they don't know beforehand that it's being done?"), Ferguson was properly suspicious of any claims that "Citizen Kane" represented an advance in technique.

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Their friendship blossoms into love and that's where the second half of the film begins - after some minutes of blank screen - leaving the ordinary world of narrative far behind.

By cancelling out the ordinary neatness of narrative explanation, Shakespeare does not merely mystify his people, as the Mona Lisa is made mysterious by the occluding fog of her sfumato; he humanizes them.

Richard Kahn and Tyson Lewis argue that the reptilian hypothesis may simply be Swiftian satire, a way of giving ordinary people a narrative with which to question what they see around them.

They argue that Icke displays elements of both, writing that what they call his "postmodern metanarrative" may be a way of giving ordinary people a narrative structure within which to question what they see around them.