Sentence examples for the bare narrative from inspiring English sources

Handel's "Acis and Galatea" from 1718 gives the bare narrative of Ovid's tale and then sends us home happy and earlier than expected.

It is encouraging that something as frankly bizarre as "Cats"—which eschews all but the barest narrative, and glories in silly rhymes and an art-for-art's-sake absurdity appeals to so many.

Those are the bare bones of a narrative that proceeds in fits and starts.

First, Emily Mann's script does a nice job of trimming Singer's urban picaresque tale almost to the bare bones without scarring the central narrative.

Shostakovich took the bare bones of Leskov's narrative, but significantly altered its balance of sympathies.

Both touch on most of the same key facts, dates and obscure accounting structures that make up the bare bones of the Enron narrative.

Mr Quignard writes much as Rembrandt or De la Tour painted; his narrative illumines only the bare essential, moments of intense emotion.

Hanging over the bare bones of Alderman's revisionist narrative, like the perfume of roasting meat over a sacrifice, is the poetry of Christian doctrine and myth.

"Hanging over the bare bones of Alderman's revisionist narrative, like the perfume of roasting meat over a sacrifice, is the poetry of Christian doctrine and myth," wrote Guardian reviewer Tom Holland.

Try to focus on the bare sound itself without attaching a narrative to it.

He is drawn to ambiguity, to moments which give a fleeting impression of narrative but which, on closer inspection, reveal only the bare bones of form.