Sentence examples for suspicious narrator from inspiring English sources

The detectives assigned to the case "professed to see nothing unusual," but our suspicious narrator, who is the attending physician, summons his friend Inspector Conroy, and together they discover that the comatose patient is a stigmatic, bearing wounds on her hands and feet, with long points appearing to project from the skin "like the ends of nails".

Here and there I found myself arguing with the text, suspicious of the narrators' reliability.

Narrator is also suspicious of all the things the friend says that he has seen when not with the narrator - did he really see Elvis and the Liberation of Paris?

The narrator's father, suspicious in his old age, is afraid that his wife's relatives will take over the farm after he's died.

Juno is beautiful, airy and innocent; Juliet, the narrator, is tough-talking, suspicious and protective.

Such flouting of narratorial privilege is both outrageous and fitting, for this narrator is as secretive and suspicious as Brontë's Jane Eyre was fearlessly plain-speaking.

The narrators were sometimes bitter or suspicious, but mostly friendly, almost invariably courteous, and occasionally, like Parapa, very funny.

Carrère works himself and his own stories into these books, partly because he is a good postmodernist, who is suspicious of concealed or "invisible" third-person narrators.

Here, the narrator is eluding to some pretty suspicious scenarios involving sharp implements, illness, and betrayal, and, as the piece goes on, many more small evidences of crime and discord emerge accidents, struggles, arguments, and screams.

He played the Narrator as a Che-like observer, suspicious and crafty and reptilian all at the same time.

"It will not be suspicious to have a motorcycle or bicycle there," the narrator says, apparently referring to the route taken by a regular shuttle bus moving American troops from a naval base to a subway station.