Sentence examples for sad narrative from inspiring English sources

This first novel is the sad narrative of an elderly woman slipping into dementia.

It is, rather, the sad narrative of an elderly woman slipping into dementia.

Today Robin Williams is part of the sad narrative that we used to turn to him to disrupt.

It's hard to imagine any revelation that would alter the shape of this sad narrative, which has been told overexcitedly (by, for one, Paul Burrell, Diana's butler, in "The Way We Were" — emetic book, emetic title) and soberly (by Sarah Bradford, in her serious and balanced 2006 biography, "Diana").

There's more character work than action in this sweetly sad narrative about a decent man, Thomas Flynn, who can't figure out how to deal with his teenage son, Chris, when the boy dumps sports and schoolwork to take up marijuana and mischief, becoming so destructive that he pulls a stretch in a juvenile correction facility.

It's the sad narrative of the first weeks of the new 114th Congress.

The book's photographs suggest the countless strange and sad narratives from urban life in America in the mid-to-late 20th century.

Uncle Rudolf is a desperately sad tale; a haunting narrative by a haunted man whose inability to fuse the fragments of his childhood condemns him to an unanchored existence, floating between the old world - and words - and the new.

Somewhere in the confused narrative is the sad story of bright people doomed to failure.

It is a book with considerable pleasures, augmented by Auster's graceful, muted narrative voice -- a man telling us a sad story through a concrete wall.

It was part of that sad living room narrative that sideswipes tech executives from time to time, the notion that there must be a meta-market out there for a product that does all the games and all the movies and all the music and all the things at the same time.