Sentences with phrase «narrative arc of our lives»

It's both dazzling and chilling to realize that the narrative arc of our lives relies on a phenomenon that is by turns robust, fallible, malleable, potent, slippery, inventive, and above all, powerfully yoked to emotion.

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Squinted at in another way, Kenyon's life follows the arc of the classic conversion narrative: early churchgoing, adolescent rebellion, and return to the church as an adult.
No sooner are we fully invested in one of the Golds» lives than their narrative arc comes to an all - too - soon conclusion, and we're whisked onward to the next sibling only to begin the process of acquaintanceship all over.
Screencraft.org has a fabulous video interview with this writer extraordinaire and master of dialogue in which he talks about creating memorable characters («what a character wants, and how they go about getting it defines a character»), and how characters do not resemble real people («people don't speak in dialogue» and «their lives don't unfold in narrative arcs.»)
The three concurrent presentations that make up The Progress of Love constitute a narrative arc, embracing love as an ideal, love as a lived experience, and love as something lost.
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