Sentence examples for surface of the narrative from inspiring English sources

The power of a ghost story lies in what is feared beneath the surface of the narrative, terrors glimpsed or imagined in the cracks, rather than what leaps out of the shadows.

But the reason she gives for this produces a hiccup in the quiescent surface of the narrative: the cakes are for her son, who is six.

Yet as it is, his words slip across the surface of the narrative like sheeting water, never finding the cracks that lead within.

By this point, it should be clear that, below the surface of this narrative, a deeper conflict is being waged: the fight of the liberal intelligentsia against the redneck, racist Trump voters of Missouri.

He may be more critical in assessing what is under the surface of the positive narrative … but overall I don't think the election result will have a major impact here".

To readers who admire her work, she is a journalist of rare candor and style, a writer who unflinchingly peels back the smooth surface of public narrative and the skin of her own psyche, opening both to scrutiny and giving magazine writing a lambent glamour in the process.

Mostly, historians conceal the whole process of research beneath the smooth surface of their narrative, editing themselves out of the finished product.

We found that these ideas of proximity did surface in the narratives of members of the general public.

Bergman has always been interested, one might also say obsessed, with themes involving identity, and especially the identities of female characters, but an early proto-Persona like Summer Interlude (1950) resolutely stayed on the surface of its narrative about a ballerina tormented by approaching middle age and the inability to perform.

Commenting on the funding in a statement, Om Malik, partner at True Ventures and a Narrative board member said: "We are only just touching the surface of the creative uses for the Narrative Clip.

As the novel progresses, we realise that Paul's animosity towards his brother is just one of a host of resentments that simmer beneath the surface of his narrative.