Sentence examples for slight narrative from inspiring English sources

The slight narrative is about a girl growing up, told through the appearance of different-size puppets.

Conditions on the reservation are so appalling -- rampant unemployment, epidemic alcohol abuse, woefully inadequate sanitation -- that Mr. Eyre continually interrupts his slight narrative to lament them.

Mr. Tarr distends his slight narrative sequence into an elaborate, lugubrious arabesque of expanding and collapsing perspectives, drifting, in a single shot, from a close-up detail of human interactions to the languid contemplation of a ship's hull, out to a macroview of the entire tableau before moving in (slowly, slowly) to frame another exquisitely choreographed gesture.

It won't be hard to pick up the slight narrative again on the other side of your slumber.

Her first book, "The Middle Stories," published when she was twenty-four, was a collection of brief postmodern fables, glittering if slight narratives that often proceed as if they were rewriting canonical fairy tales (a plumber and a princess, a girl who keeps a mermaid in a jar, a woman who lives in a shoe, and so on).

For a novel concerned with the saving power of story, "Generation A" turns out to be remarkably slight on narrative.

Cusk's preoccupations, no doubt, are elitist, her narratives slight, her stylistic ambition pronounced.

For a narrative so slight, "Sweet Storm" stays with you like the freshness following a summer cloudburst.

By the time you finally see that face in full, its eyes are closed because Nora is now literally on ice, awaiting the burial that gives this slight, sentimental movie its narrative shape and clumsy comedy.

But ultimately, the premise of Martin's sudden, inexplicable celebrity is impossible to believe and the elaboration of the narrative too slight to sustain a feature film of this length.

LeBron was the can't-miss prospect whose upside had agents and shoe companies salivating before he'd entered high school, while Jordan was the guy who didn't even make the varsity team until his sophomore year, a slight that, as the narrative goes, forged the near-sociopathic competitive edge that pushed him to the top.