Sentence examples for sturdy narrative from inspiring English sources

Ever since the Romans, the revenge plot has been a sturdy narrative strategy.

Then to us, afterwards, it changes from an assumed sturdy narrative into a swirling constellation of remembered and half-remembered moments, which drift in and out of reach.

April 16 2010 April 18 201010 With its sturdy narrative structure, well-timed slapstick, and ancient jokes, the tap-dance show "Time Step" could be an old vaudeville turn itself, a benign and appealing entertainment.

Mixed in alongside all this there's Tex-Mex dance music, the conjunto styles, through to sturdy narrative ballads, the corridos, and a revival of the music and even the singers from the Chavez Ravine era.

But the wit and invention of Mr. Tolins's writing and the immersive storytelling skills of Mr. Urie are such that not only do they spin a sturdy narrative out of this preposterous situation, they actually persuade you to buy into it.

He argues persuasively that Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, and Neil Gaiman have succeeded in "grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction …They're forging connections between literary spheres that have been hermetically sealed off from one another for a century".

Fairy tales are one of the oldest, and sturdiest, narrative forms our culture knows.

Like a crash survivor cannibalizing his or her ship, "The 100" takes components from the standard Y.A. and sci-fi toolkits and assembles them into a sturdy, efficient narrative.

Woolf and Mr. Murakami are both modern (or postmodern) novelists, of course, and it might be supposed that the sturdier, more narrative-driven novels of the 19th century would provide stronger bones for a stage version.

This may have to do with her enduring themes and sturdy if radical narrative architecture, but these qualities seem to have been served well by careful translation.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith 432pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Among the many tasks Zadie Smith sets herself in her ambitious, hugely impressive new novel is that of finding a style at once flexible enough to give voice to the multitude of different worlds it contains, and sturdy enough to keep the narrative from disintegrating into a babel of incompatible registers.