Sentence examples for silly narrative from inspiring English sources

But where the film really falls apart is in the last stretch, where an unlikely, frustratingly silly narrative revelation arrives, one that was unpopular with literary critics at the time of the book's release.

Franzen gave a lengthy answer: If therapy is some sort of dopey self-esteem bolstering, find-some-useful-fictions-to-make-yourself-feel-better kind of thing in your mind, with some silly narrative of exorcising dark moments in your past, getting them down and to hell with the reader, it felt good it was a cathartic thing for you…then this was not a therapy project.

Halliwell's Film Guide rated the film as an improvement on its predecessor, giving it two stars out of four and describing it as a "thunderous, high-voltage action movie with dazzling special effects that provide a distraction from the often silly narrative".

Executing their seriously silly narratives with an inimitable style and ineffably frank flair, Sticky Monster Lab takes figurative design to the next level.

"There is a long-standing tradition of framing this early period in a very negative light and contrasting it with this notion of the English arriving and celebrating Thanksgiving, which is a silly invented narrative," J. Michael Francis, a historian at the University of South Florida St . Petersburg said.

The great majority of Greeks are hard-working people, eager to take responsibility for their future, against the paranoid narrative of our silly, yet now potentially so dangerous, latter-day prophets of xenophobia and provincialism.

But there's a driving narrative impulse, and, however silly, a kind of idealism, a sense that it's exciting to make contact with whatever's out there.

It is encouraging that something as frankly bizarre as "Cats"—which eschews all but the barest narrative, and glories in silly rhymes and an art-for-art's-sake absurdity appeals to so many.

I wanted a word that was noisy, silly, inappropriate, and didn't suggest a narrative.

"There's a narrative around that it's just silly, poor people getting into debt, when it's actually affecting wider swaths of society and everyone is only one step away from it," she said.

The silly twist ending is supremely exasperating, and creating the narrative foundation for this final revelatory whiplash has meant laying down some long scenes that at the time look baffling and unconvincing.