Sentence examples for start a narrative from inspiring English sources

His visit to the Asian sandwich shop came on a day off from shooting "The Big C" in Stamford, Conn. "It's such an interesting place to start a narrative, with a character who is ill," he said, referring to Ms. Linney's role as a teacher who has just learned that she has cancer.

When Gavin and his socially challenged friends Hobie (Hubbel Palmer and Maynard Rob Pinkstonon) discover what they believe to be Bigfoot scat in a nearby wood, they kick-start a narrative more lumbering than its hairy inspiration.

In response, he started a narrative fashioned from captioned images: "General Erections" was about a night-club competition over penis size.

Although on paper they sound like the worst patients ever (who wants an after-dark appointment with a werewolf?), their supernatural powers make for plotlines that cleverly relate to real-world issues – a zombie starts a narrative on assisted suicide, while anti-werewolf feeling proves a metaphor for racial discrimination.

American policymakers, it said, should start a "new narrative" and show respect for China's status as a rising power.

Definitely in decorating I always try to start a creative narrative.

I want to start a counter-narrative: I have failed!

Publicly-quoted companies were due to start including a narrative account of their corporate strategy and prospects in their annual reports from next April.

How do we understand ourselves if we have no notion of a society, culture or world different from the one in which we live?" When thinking about how to insert the humanities into a dialogue about a nation and its future we must start with a narrative – what story do we seek to tell?

"As a curator you usually start with a narrative in mind," explains Ghidini.

Deeply problematic, likely racist, and perhaps miscalculated, the officer started a familiar narrative that is often used to justify two types of violence.