Sentence examples for smaller narrative from inspiring English sources

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.

I am a sucker for these smaller narratives, crouched and concealed within the larger quest; the problem comes as they start to swell and delay the Vanger plot.

After completing BioShock Infinite and its expansion, Levine announced that he was restructuring Irrational Games to focus on smaller, narrative-driven titles.

It was important that the participant was feeling comfortable, and the method was designed in a way which allowed first author to give distressed participants space, for instance by offering more time, and accepting smaller narratives.

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".