Sentence examples for rule of narrative from inspiring English sources

It isn't much of an advert for direct action, but it is a powerful reminder of that most fundamental rule of narrative cinema: that actions have consequences.

As an anecdote that illustrates a bigger story about what's wrong with Wall Street the classic "show, don't tell" rule of narrative writing the book works.

According to all the rules of narrative, this should be a disaster.

I fear this goes back to the basic rules of narrative structure: without some form of conflict, you have no plot.

The book is a very big challenge to adapt because it doesn't follow any of the normal rules of narrative.

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".

And we have become incredibly sophisticated in our understanding of the rules of narrative: we can be pitched into the middle of a story without the elaborate set-ups that the reader of a Victorian novel or play required.

Claire Denis's film is a mesmeric, masculine ballet whose beauty and confident power, manifested in lugubrious scenes which suspend the normal rules of narrative procedure, simply go beyond conventional ideas of transgression or homoeroticism.

Depending on how you chose to look at it, she was either breaking the rules of narrative in the grand tradition of Sterne or writing herself into a meta-fictional corner.

Crouching Tiger adopts the convention of the wu xia martial arts stories: in formal combat, the rules of gravity are suspended, and with them the rules of narrative and ordinary human possibility - bringing into the action genre a delirious new sort of magic realism.

McGregor told the BBC the piece would "break the rules" of narrative ballet.