Sentence examples for sheer narrative from inspiring English sources

If Houston were looking for a symbolic moment - a moment of sheer narrative, you could say - this was it.

But with the exception of a somewhat distracting third-act cameo by co-producer Brad Pitt, it is pitched pretty near perfectly in terms of sheer narrative craftsmanship.

Accomplished as it is on its own terms, "The Hollow" does not make up in psychological complexity or musical richness what it has lost in sheer narrative bite by keeping the vengeful, headless ghost offstage.

In terms of sheer narrative thwack, historians have had better luck breaking off small slices of the period, as David McCullough did in "1776" and his biography of John Adams.

To write this sort of tome without producing a textbook or leaving readers feeling like they need to go wash 50 years of newsprint off their hands, one has either to advance an argument or rely on sheer narrative thrust.

The novel that most challenges the basic conventions of fiction is Marina Warner's The Leto Bundle, which is sometimes hard to assemble in the mind but has long stretches of sheer narrative bliss.

Although it's by no means a ground-breaking work, the sheer polish, narrative dash and dramatic brio of "Gabriel" got my theater-loving juices flowing again pretty quickly.

The book is very long -- more than 600 pages -- and the sheer parade of narrative detail can seem overwhelming and undigested.

Before long -- as Shackleton and his men sail off, full of Edwardian pluck, into a 22-month ordeal of hunger, frustration and cold -- you become like a restless child at bedtime stilled and enraptured by the sheer power of narrative, and your skepticism is overwhelmed by a childlike greediness for vicarious adventure.

Persepolis gives us the sheer pleasure of narrative, rarely found in modern cinema or indeed fiction: a gripping story of what it is like to grow from a lonely imaginative child into an adult, and to find this internal tumult matched by geo-political upheaval.

Den of Geek writer Juliette Harrisson named it the "finest" stand-alone episode of season 5 and wrote, "for sheer fun and narrative playfulness, the winner has to be Bad Blood".