Sentence examples for plain narrative from inspiring English sources
In terms of plain narrative, the Nativity story is hard to beat.
Shamsie keeps her symbolism firmly under control, deploying a clear, plain narrative style and a traditional realist form.
Then, almost as an act of defiance, he wrote one that was "plain narrative from beginning to end".
But underneath this plain narrative surface — or rather, resting on it the way a smooth stone rests in your palm — is a lucid and melancholy inquiry into the current state of American society.
Fear of powerful newcomers with different values is a topical enough theme, and music is the medium that can absorb all contradictions and get right beneath the surface of plain narrative.
At first glance the film seems like little more than an extended anecdote, but underneath this plain narrative surface is a lucid and melancholy inquiry into the current state of American society.
Whatever we observe — Georges walking down a corridor, Anne crying in a café — we cannot be sure whether it is a plain, reliable narrative or whether the camera is a hidden one (hence the title), wielded by a compulsive voyeur.
On the basis that imagination, too, is no more than a fancy, upmarket word for fibbing, acts of fiction remain unknown; at Lecture Films, the movie studio where Mark toils — he is introduced as "one of our least successful screenwriters" — the typical product consists of a blazered bore reciting a plain historical narrative woven from verified facts.
Clement discovered deep philosophical truths in the plain-sounding narratives and precepts of the Bible.
Some of them — burly men with worn faces and white-haired women with slouched shoulders — told of suffering, and sometimes death, their plain-spoken narratives in sharp contrast to the data-driven discussions of board members.
She sings of the hard times, murderous urges and chilling loneliness that haunt the old Anglo-Celtic ballads but, with one exception, sets her plain-spoken narratives resolutely in the present.
