Sentence examples for present-day narrative from inspiring English sources

Many novels juxtaposed a present-day narrative with one set in the past.

In Cunningham's present-day narrative, Clarissa Vaughan's sick, demented friend Richard uses the phrase "the hours" for what he has to endure.

The present-day narrative focuses on Taylor Markham, embroiled in a fiercely fought territorial battle between the Jellicoe School (which she attends), the Townies and the Cadets.

The first two series were good enough, but suffered slightly from the rather heavy-handed way their plots tried to shoehorn notorious Whitechapel crimes – Jack the Ripper and the Kray gang – into a present-day narrative.

Melrose was born in Johannesburg and currently spends much of her time in South Africa; the contrast between the frozen Suffolk farmland of the novel's present-day narrative and the vivid, dust-red excitement of its Zambian backstory lends a unique texture to what might otherwise have felt monochrome and bleak.

It's a film with charm and sweetness, but for me is structurally encumbered by this new present-day narrative level: the smarter, zappier modern animated style makes the marionette-style images of the past look a bit low-octane and quaint.

Moore was cast as the Pearson family mom, Rebecca, who ages from her 20s to her 70s as the series unfolds in flashbacks and present-day narratives.

Unfortunately, it required a heroic effort to wade through much of Volume Two: the lightest character, Hiro, was stuck in feudal Japan, fighting a battle that felt disconnected from the present day narrative.

In confirmation of Donella H. Meadow's critique [1] that contemporary visions primarily describe implementations and pathways while neglecting or minimizing the proper story or narrative, many present-day visions seem to lack a clear distinction between the narratives (vision) told and the pathways (implementations) described.

This gives him something to do in the present-day sections of the narrative besides observe (as – ugh! – the proverbial fly on the wall), but it just isn't necessary to explain their bad behaviour.

General tendencies are hard to discover: I think the only moment when I've had a real sense of what was of interest to the English-language novel was the year I read 130 novels to judge a prize, and was struck (this was 2001) by how many alternated present-day archival study and historic narrative, influenced by AS Byatt's Possession and Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library.