Sentence examples for stimulating narrative from inspiring English sources

It's true that this reworking of the biblical story of Nebuchadnezzar has never been in the top flight of Verdi favourites but it has a stimulating narrative drive that cries out for dramatic direction.

Before that, the city's Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities had observed their own, religiously based systems for keeping time.If there is a theme that holds this rich, stimulating narrative together, it is the perpetual and often tragically unsuccessful search for terms on which the city's communities could share the same hotly contested space.

It illustrates a way in which the data collection instrument can be conceptualised in order to stimulate narrative and communicative structuring processes about network relations.

Objective: An emerging trend in qualitative research is to use individual participant data to stimulate narratives in interviews.

Photographs have been used in interviews to extend and elaborate on memories and evoke emotions (Clark-Ibáñez, 2004; Harper, 2002), to stimulate enriched narratives about health-related experiences; for example, living with illness (Bell, 2002) or experiencing poverty (Hodgetts, Radley, Chamberlain, & Hodgetts, 2007).

Whereas wild animals like wolves will avert their eyes when spotted, dogs and cats readily return our gaze, and with an apparent emotiveness that stimulates the wistful narrative in our head.

In the quick-cutting, heavily manipulated version of reality that Mr. Murray calls commercialized documentary, the apartment carries a lot of narrative weight, stimulating the action and framing it in pretty colors.

Also, there has to be some narrative to stimulate conversation.

But with the bulk of Greece's bailout financing going to repay banks rather than stimulate the economy, that narrative may ring more true for German voters than Greek ones.

Jews harps, once widely performed in and around Mozambique, have been reintroduced as a method to stimulate women's narratives.

To an extent, he says, this was stimulated by the "familiar old narrative" of youth discovering the classics of the past, but his bubbling enthusiasm for reading is too vigorous to be satisfied with solitary pleasure.