Sentence examples for wandering narrative from inspiring English sources

The hardest thing to resist is simply cutting off a wandering narrative and giving the advice.

Its wandering narrative and quizzical blend of the outré and the everyday sometimes feel like David Lynch for young adults.

He thinks, for example, that "John's habit of regular long walks around Dublin and environs... foreshadows the wandering narrative line which snakes through most of his son's fiction" — an observation that does not do a lot of interpretive work.

Deadpan, droll, savage, his wandering narrative matches satire aimed at the media and tourism with an odd kind of murder mystery. 1 September (Heinemann) Comedy by Julian Hall Sarah Millican: Chatterbox The loquacious Geordie lass justifiably made it on to the shortlist for the Edinburgh Comedy Award this year.

Its low production value, wandering narrative, flat history and self-important egoism did little to reveal the shortcomings of the Obama phenomenon.

Here's a look at four comics that feature fractured stories, wandering narratives, time-traveling teens, and a creepy sketchbook story about a girl and her weird dad.

One strand of the wandering, tangled narrative follows Celso and his friends, real and imaginary (not that there's a difference), through the usual boyish circuit of home and school.

If their wandering and digressive narrative style is any indication, character interests them much more than plot.

The Vietnam War plays a central role and so does American jazz, not only thematically — one main character is a pianist who walks away from the chance to play with Miles Davis when he joins the Marines — but stylistically as well, with narrative strains wandering improvisatorily away from the main tale and finding intricate paths that bring them back again.

Overlaying the Odysseyan wandering and spiraling of this narrative is a different kind of structure, specifically the tripartite structure of the narrative of Genesis that begins with creation, builds to catastrophic annihilation (the flood), and then moves on to the recreation or reconstruction of human society.

A blizzard of people, places, organizations and anecdotes can be disorienting, and instead of a discrete central narrative that might keep wandering minds on course, the book contains multiple narratives and delicately interlaced themes.