Sentence examples for small narrative from inspiring English sources

They were succeeded by small narrative paintings.

Duccio's altarpiece, the "Maestà," contains a large number of small narrative scenes reminiscent of Giotto's fresco paintings.

New England in 2007 form Every year there is always a small narrative that gathers pace suggesting the New England Patriots are past their prime and that the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady era is over.

In folk art, this votive urge found expression in small narrative paintings (only occasionally large, as in Mexico) depicting an accident, illness, or other disaster from which the victim was saved by the intervention of a saint or the Madonna.

A sparkling fountain trickles water to the bottom of the picture, from where it probably fell to thirsting souls in Purgatory on a predella — a strip of small narrative scenes — that was lost sometime before 1568, when a local writer lamented its ruin by restorers with "calves' hands".

There's more to Dennis than initially appears, and, through a series of small narrative turns, he manages to shake off the Danish dreariness — he pries away from Mom's viselike clutches with a lie about a bodybuilding competition in Germany — for the welcoming sun and embracing nights of Thailand.

On closer inspection, though, what we are glimpsing is several small narratives contained in the bigger defining one.

In Ivimey's work small narratives play out between creatures made of materials that include bone, cotton and leather.

If the movie, which opens today at Film Forum, lacks the novelistic breadth and color of a movie like Mr. Guest's "Best in Show," within its smaller narrative frame it is just as incisive in its edgy mixture of condescension and affection.

Section References (For images, see gallery) The Ignudi are the 20 athletic, nude males that Michelangelo painted as supporting figures at each corner of the five smaller narrative scenes that run along the centre of the ceiling.

Again and again, Winogrand captured photographs within photographs, smaller narratives within the bigger picture.