Sentence examples for sustained narratives from inspiring English sources

But hip-hop phrases are often fragmentary, so it remains to be seen how hip-hop can be used in sustained narratives.

Such early writers as Plato, Cicero, Apuleius, and Augustine made use of allegory, but it became especially popular in sustained narratives in the Middle Ages.

If the best television shows today are like novels, with sustained narratives stretched out over seasons, then it would stand to reason that Web series are like short stories in glowing rectangles, drama and comedy distilled.

By Rachel Syme September 9, 2013 If the best television shows today are like novels, with sustained narratives stretched out over seasons, then it would stand to reason that Web series are like short stories in glowing rectangles, drama and comedy distilled.

The sprawling, sustained narratives which were once the preserve of comics, TV dramas and online video games would at last make it into cinemas.

"Signals were flashing of surprising public unease surprising in view of the extraordinary good times that graced America .The heart of his book is two sustained narratives, as full of juicy titbits as a cherry cake, about the twin peaks of an age of vicious scandal.

Writer-director Paul King has more flair for comic set-pieces than he does for sustained narrative.

Hawthorne knew, as Wineapple says, that "his strengths as a writer did not lie in consistently sustained narrative".

From a dramatic perspective, though, the work is less a sustained narrative than a sequence of scenes vividly limned through beguiling melodies and brilliant orchestration.

Compared with this superbly sustained narrative drollery, Douglas's much-vaunted wit — vouched-for rather than experienced — rarely sparkles in the way that his reputation claims and the book demands.

The evening's most successfully sustained narrative, inspired by Poe's "Hop Frog," shows Mr. Wilson's gift for playing amusingly with human scale, with a dwarf hero and heroine (Dirk Ossig and Claudia Renner) who might have been conceived by Velasquez.