Sentence examples for straightforward narratives from inspiring English sources

We like straightforward narratives that get to the point; we like characters whose identities and relationships with each other are clear; we like theatricality, but in moderation.

With some exceptions, "Happiness" is full of straightforward sentences in straightforward narratives, as you might expect from someone who understands the mechanics of storytelling but hasn't yet written much fiction.

And as the movie metamorphoses from corporate thriller into a sci-fi parable, it makes the same bold leaps into the irrational as "Mulholland Drive" and "Fight Club," movies whose initially straightforward narratives also veered into mazelike halls of mirrors.

(Anderson) The Shins (Sunday and Monday) For his fourth album with these indie-rock darlings, the frontman James Mercer assembled a small army of peers from other bands (Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Fruit Bats) and pared down to absolutely straightforward narratives and power-pop eagerness.

He has ceased writing songs about individual characters with straightforward narratives or concept albums and briefly considered quitting the music business entirely after creating and promoting this album.

Jacob Korg believes that Thomas's fiction work can be classified into two main bodies, vigorous fantasies in a poetic style and, after 1939, more straightforward narratives.

Anniversaries provide the most straightforward narrative peg.

They specialize in straightforward narrative theater.

There is no straightforward narrative here.

They share the same straightforward narrative.

AIDS used to present a grimly straightforward narrative.