Sentence examples for up narratives from inspiring English sources

But just as knowing how music affects one doesn't diminish its affects, knowing that we make up narratives about our lives doesn't always protect us from doing it.

Although she knows she need not, Danticat, for all her success as a writer, still feels bad about making up narratives about people whose real-life stories are already so gripping.

But what I can tell you from the inside, from watching decades of teams in various sports, is that the teams themselves build up narratives about who they are, where they are going and why.

"Inspired by historical artefacts from around the world, such as the ceremonial Hawaiian feather helmet worn by chiefs, I've made up narratives and imaginary civilisations for where certain objects might have come from".

This is not in any way meant to compare the two men — if Strauss-Kahn were found guilty of every last thing he has ever been accused of, it would only be a tiny fraction of what Qaddafi has done and ordered — but as a reminder that headline certainties can serve only to set up narratives of rapid reversal, which hide a long evolution.

With the stories of Maria Barbella and Joseph Stella and even the fiction of Pietro di Donato, Ferraro has dug up narratives that have been free-floating in American history.

At no point does she stir up narrative tension.

Meanwhile, if we are to forgive the liberties taken, "A Burnable Book" must immerse us in an imaginatively rich past while also pumping up narrative adrenaline.

There have been celebrities who have lifted the Time's Up narrative and mission, and when you're driving awareness, that's a very helpful thing.

Dramatically, it confirms Borges's point that all writing is a "controlled dream"; and, even if it takes time to build up narrative suspense, it is artfully staged.

And although no one is talking about chopping up narrative books, like novels, anthologies of short stories could be distributed this way.