Sentence examples for rigorous narrative from inspiring English sources

The singing part itself (done very well indeed by Marlene Ralis Rosen) is a rigorous narrative voice that periodically lapses (or does it elevate itself?) into barroom balladry.

I prefer the artwork of Ghost World, with its dominant pastel green, or, even better, the austerely beautiful black-white-and-grey chamber music of David Boring, to the occasionally eye-hurting full-colour extravaganza that is Patience, but this is a Clowes novel, constructed with rigorous narrative and visual intricacy, so you need to pay attention to every single panel.

I vote for fame, but for the sake of argument, Fetherling also repeats some of the generally agreed conventions of the novella: they happen over a shorter period of time, are free from the rigorous narrative structures of the novel, and are therefore allowed to focus on an intensely realised dissection of character.

Ms. Loktev's discipline is as impressive as her eye for landscape, but the film's rigorous withholding of narrative information and its resistance to anything that might smack of "drama" feels arch and coy rather than resonant.

The plot of "Silver City" is movieish in the extreme, with filthy abandoned mines subbing for the bars and alleys of urban noir, but it's no more than mild cheese — "The Big Sleep" or "Chinatown" without the malice, rigorous design, and narrative epiphanies.

Here he adopts a style that mixes personal observation and memory, travel reportage and interviews with historical narrative and rigorous argument.

Her narratives are rigorous, partial to the present tense, and untempted by the small change of contemporary realism (abundant and superfluous dialogue in quotation marks, sharply individuated characters, tellingly selected detail).

Several methods have been advanced for combining qualitative research, from meta-narrative, to rigorous coding, and translation of themes, and there is not yet consensus on best practice [ 18- 20].

The Independent newspaper writes that her sensitive rendering combined "rigorous journalistic research with the narrative skills of a novelist".

Using inexperienced actors and lived-in locations, Mr. Porterfield joins an off-the-cuff narrative to a rigorous realism, allowing information to swell and fade through snatches of overheard conversations.

Supplemented by forays into larger chunks of classical-music history and additional commentary from performers and critics, a larger theme emerges over the course of the narrative: Balter's rigorous work ethic, Saariaho's ethereal musical vocabulary, Nico Muhly's focus on sociality as critical to his practice.