Sentences with phrase «crucial narrative elements»

Rather than blind its audience with pietistic, sermonizing overtones, the film devalues these crucial narrative elements and in its subduing, the film's narrative simply does not gel.

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From iconic «wilderness» parks to monuments, memorials, battlefields, historical parks, and more, the making of the parks — and the elements preserved within them — are crucial pieces of this nation's still unfolding history, pieces tied to often unspoken and unexamined narratives about what and who we are.

Personally, I think some of these developments owe to a mixture of two elements: first, nostalgia towards different moments in Italian history in which we could still appear to play a crucial role internationally; and second, a desire to celebrate a polyphonic idea of art history that is too often flattened by mainstream narratives in international museums.