Sentence examples similar to truncated narrative from inspiring English sources
Perverse though it may sound, it would have smoothed out the awkward narrative that feels awfully piecemeal and truncated.
Skippy is a pill-taking, meekly deranged fourteen-year-old, whose truncated coming-of-age serves as the central narrative of a book bursting with characters and incidents of wildly varying registers.
By The New Yorker September 8, 2010 The eponymous main character of "Skippy Dies," Paul Murray's dark yet hilarious second novel, is described in this week's review as a "pill-taking, meekly deranged fourteen-year-old, whose truncated coming-of-age serves as the central narrative of a book bursting with characters and incidents of wildly varying registers".
Steiner says the striking incongruity of the two panels the left panel appearing to be "truncated", while the right depicts a centralized explosion enhances the work's narrative power.
A good deal of contemporary atheism, humanism and materialism expresses only a truncated dualism and disillusioned heavenism, failing to provide alternative reshaping narratives of meaning, comfort and continuity for self and body.
The effect of the dual narrative – its forays into a past that we know has been truncated, and probably violently, are regularly punctuated by Cleave's dream-like, unstable present – is disorienting.
He brought narrative flair to the slow movement and more comic effects to the third movement, with its truncated phrases and abrupt silences that make it seem as if the pianist were suffering a memory lapse.
Nelson also eschews the narrative of unbridled heroism prescribed to the group in Mario Van Peebles's once influential "Panther," a highly fictionalized and haphazardly truncated account, released twenty years ago.
A truncated exhibition followed.
