Sentence examples for playful narrative from inspiring English sources

His songs became playful narrative fantasies populated by improbable characters like the "chimbley sweep," whose song of despair ("I am a poor and a wretched boy/ A chimbley, chimbley sweep") Mr. Meloy cannot sing without a grin.

Wright called it "a wonderful, quirky novel" that "giddies with the quality of its imagination", and constitutes "a playful narrative that breaks the rules of narrative and gets away with it".

The joys of this shrewdly playful narrative lie not only in the high-low darts and dives of Pessl's tricky plotting, but in her prose, which floats and runs as if by instinct, unpremeditated and unerring.

Many of Ingram’s works since 2005 have been attempts to create messy webs in the Umwelts of specific non-human species and human beings by creating behavioral objects that–in scale, form, agency and gesture–make signals truly meaningful to the non-human species but often in a playful narrative built from the conceits of the human perspective.

Family life involving such mundane yet never before represented activities as eating fish and chips and doing the pools, or details such as an unemployed father, was incorporated into chatty, playful narratives with repetitive cadences and unexpected, humorous twists.

There's another problem with this authorial heart-on-sleeve stuff, too: when it's slotted in among a set of playful narratives like this, how are we to know that it isn't just another of the novel's clever devices?

Some of these playful mini-narratives recall the absurdity of Monty Python-era Terry Gilliam, others the mesmerizing circularity of M. C. Escher.

Possibly, if you'd never read Javier Marías, you might be seduced by the dazzle of his prose, and his playful way with narrative conventions.

"The writer's ironic detachment, his playful tweaking of narrative conventions and readers' expectations, causes a wry curl of the lip," Michela Wrong admitted in the Spectator.

Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic-strip-like tales told in pictures, these stories force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut "Character is destiny".

They partner well with the gentle, playful tone of the narrative, which is almost entirely dialogue.