Sentence examples for quiet narrative from inspiring English sources

When you're playing action in the background and there's a quiet narrative on top of it, there has to be some duality to the music that services both aspects and both dynamics.

As the series ends, Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione have returned to Platform 9 3/4 to send their own children off to Hogwarts, a quiet narrative reassurance that our fictional home base has recovered and that the magical school adventures will go on, even as the books are ending.

(For those who aren't familiar, she's an acclaimed literary novelist who weaves religious themes into her quiet narratives).

There is no quieter narrative voice than Trevor's impersonal but irreducible one, and none that so demands a reader's strict attention.

"There is no quieter narrative voice than Trevor's impersonal but irreducible one, and none that so demands a reader's strict attention," Thomas Mallon said here in 2002.

Invariably, the louder the background tumult, the more useful is the quiet, dispassionate narrative.

According to the quiet war narrative, we would cut off the snake's head by deep, clever and unpredictable subterfuge, instead of telegraphing our strategies in advance -- with thousands of highly visible US service personnel on Mideast soil -- as Dubya ended up doing, and as Mr. Obama did again last week.

But even the most cynical reader will be hard pushed to be unmoved by the pitch-perfect final line, concluding the story on a note of quiet hope and narrative symmetry.

In contrast, The Quiet American's narrative revolves around a more poignant point along the same arc.

If you troll enough American soccer coverage online, you'll find in the comments a quiet but recurring narrative claiming that Holden is injury prone.

Yes, there is male camaraderie and wistful talk of girlfriends left behind, but the sentimental payoffs and narrative quiet spots that usually shape combat pictures are left out.