Sentences with phrase «as the novel unfolds»

The opening chapters are written in a style which is redolent of the old gumshoe detectives (Mike Hammer et al.) which adds to the humor, however that style disappears as the novel unfolds, which is a shame.

Now, the conflict between an individual evil force and society emerges as the novel unfolds, and as morality is derailed.

As the novel unfolds over the next twelve months, we watch Kaukab struggle to maintain her Islamic piety as the effects of the double murder prove increasingly corrosive to the life of her family.

As the novel unfolds, we learn that the gringos might not be directly meddling with Mexican politics, but have been silently buying up swathes of land to create a noticeable presence.

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In 1967 I saw such work as concerned with case studies» (later I realized I was dealing with religious autobiographies), not in order to draw conclusions but to understand how a person's destiny unfolds, much as the destiny of characters in our Western novels unfolds.

The hope of finding a mathematics that could describe and predict how novel goods and services unfold as the economy evolves into its adjacent possible thus seems precluded, at least at present.

Based on Jack Finney's classic sci - fi novel «Invasion of the Body Snatchers», the film emphasises the tensions and lack of trust in the Malone family as an alien plot to turn all humans into emotionless, unfeeling «pod people» unfolds around them.

Rarely registering as self - important or novel, Upstream Color functions as pure cinema, a gateway into a familiar but new kind of narrative that unfolds and functions primarily on its own terms.

As the feature unfolds, Bradby's astute adaptation of his own 1998 novel of the same name becomes an indictment of the duplicity on either side, as she remains in the middlAs the feature unfolds, Bradby's astute adaptation of his own 1998 novel of the same name becomes an indictment of the duplicity on either side, as she remains in the middlas she remains in the middle.

Dominik seems to have taken this lesson to heart: Killing Them Softly unfolds primarily as a series of conversational exchanges (many lifted directly from the Higgins novel) punctuated by spasms of graphic violence.

Use the series of events chain organizer in reading comprehension activities to help learners understand tense use as it relates to the unfolding of events in short stories or novels.

Just released this June, the novel unfolds as Jason Bourne rescues a man out of the ocean whose gunshot wound to the head has nearly killed him.

Simpson's opening gambit is a «Note to Customer» from the publisher of Two Sleuths, the best - selling comic created by Miles and Hector, but she wisely uses this framing device lightly, allowing this exceptionally incisive, fine - tuned, and charming novel to unfold gracefully as she brings fresh understanding and keen humor to the complexities intrinsic to each stage of life and love.

The Geometry of God is a novel one can read greedily, following four characters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General Zia's Pakistan, where religious fundamentalism gains ground and the mujaheddin is funded by gem sales and the Americans.

Because of this, the passages about Danticat's own childhood never fully snap into focus and she can only gesture toward her feeling of abandonment when her parents move to the U.S.. For at least one reviewer, this self - effacement compromises Danticat's honesty with the reader, especially since she was writing acclaimed novels and winning literary renown as the book's events unfolded.

Ambitious, rich, and compassionate, The Lives of Others is a novel of unflinching power and emotional force which anatomizes the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family's history.

Sweet makes use of collage that includes actual childhood photographs of White, as well as other archival materials, like rough drafts of manuscripts, as she unfolds the life and works of the man that children fell in love with through novels like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.

As the 27th novel unfolds in Donna Leon's exquisite chronicle of Venetian life in all its blissful and sordid aspects, Brunetti is ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario Claudia Griffoni, and by the endless resourcefulness and craftiness of Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary and gate - keeper, and reminded of the ever - lasting virtues of his own family.

Unfolding through the convincing portrayals of individuals in turmoil, the story culminates as most baseball novels do — in the big game.

The novel unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as «my grandfather.»

I was immediately wrenched out of my immersion, and ultimately paid as much attention to the narrative unfolding before me as Dan Brown does to researching his novels.

Collect cherished objects for the lost souls and free them from the pages of the unusual book in Antique Shop - Journey of the Lost Souls Platinum Edition, a unique hidden object adventure that unfolds as a novel.

Often, you'll just have to talk to everyone as the story unfolds in a way that feels somewhat like a visual novel.

Alan soon discovers that the events unfolding around him are the living manifestation of a novel he wrote — with himself as the main character.

At MoMA PS1, one can see her whole career as an unfolding diary or performance, but do not go expecting a romance novel or true confessions.

It is constructed as the unfolding chapters of a novel based on Aldous Huxley's Island of 1962, autopian story and counterpart to the Brave New World written thirty years earlier.

The multi-media installation unfolds as a three - part narrative, drawing on figures as disparate as Russian anarchist Victor Serge and the Parisian Bonnot Gang; Abu Jildeh, Arameet and their companions fighting the British in 1930's Palestine; the artist as bandit in Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives; and Abbas and Abou - Rahme themselves in present - day Palestine.