The heartless violence seems to sit uneasily with the chirpy, straightforward narration.
— "How I Write My Songs" (1978) Even when there is straightforward narration or dialogue, the prose typically has a flat, disjointed, deliberately unliterary delivery.
His style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory.
The initial chapters can drag, as Huneven devotes page after page to straightforward narration of mundane events; even the biggest Hemingway fan may find that so many pared-down sentences and non-events grate after a while.
Her narration is straightforward, heightened by pointed imagery; seeing swans take wing she calls them "apparitions not so much of grace as of difficulty".
Refreshingly straightforward and free of narration, the documentary observes Mr. Brown at several of the Buddhist centers -- including the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California -- where he offers students his patented blend of recipes and meditation.
Mirroring this calm testimony, Mr. Minn favors muted re-enactments over horrific images and straightforward witness accounts over melodramatic narration.
For Tim Parks in the London Review of Books, "One can only admire the patience and resourcefulness with which Swift constructs all his interconnections (the frequent parallel between culled cattle and slaughtered soldiers is another), but the narration is more effective when straightforward... Still, the relationships between the main characters are convincing, and they are the core of the story".
Adding music or narration to digital editions of books is fairly straightforward, and given the popularity of audio books, being able to both read and hear a book should be popular for some genres.
Other terms like "normal distributions," "clustering," "control experiment," "causality," and more like these are explained in a straightforward and simple way, completing the chapter with an exciting, exemplary narration of the rise of microbiology via the scientific adventures of von Leeuwenhoek, Redi, Pasteur, Harvey, Koch, and Snow.
Director Bob Clark (whose previous big hits were "Porky's" and "Porky's II," confoundingly) keeps things straightforward and simple, and works at a child's-eye level, just as Shepherd's narration avoids adult hindsight/insight.
