Sentence examples for sustaining narrative from inspiring English sources

But things with the made-over grandmother feel wrong faster than you can wave a wand — a bit too quickly, actually, in terms of sustaining narrative suspense.

Maybe having to work to give meaning to a story results in a happier, more sustaining narrative?

There was a wavering line to be walked between what some saw as the intermittently unseen irrelevancy of the toy department and the renewed importance of sports as a continuum in American life, a sustaining narrative and a comforting normality.

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.

It is the longest sustained narrative about Jesus in the Qur'an; all other verses are rather cryptic about Jesus.

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.

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