Sentences with phrase «narrative device»

And more impressively, the journey itself was the only narrative device in the game.

To become more like Don't Look Now in placing sex as an important narrative device that impacts the story and its protagonist.

It's a tried and true narrative device: throw a bunch of disparate people into the story pool and see how they swim.

While the basis for the series offers a solid narrative device, it doesn't lend itself to a long, stable run.

While many may not like the addition of these events, I feel they are a successful narrative device in this world that I do not believe would work in many other titles.

Bit of a mammoth and a slightly strange narrative device but its scholarly and well written.

The biographies, basic and concise, provide lesser - known and engaging elements of each saint's life, though they serve primarily as narrative devices that possess greater value for Campbell than for her readers.

It's all built on the thinnest sliver of narrative devices, self - centered elite brought to the level of those they used to look down on learning to be a better person as they rebuild their fortune, and as such expecting anything analogous to a surprise is a waste of time.

Richardson is fascinated by the ways we connect with landscape; within her deeply layered practice, she draws on narrative devices used in science fiction and B - movie horror films, as well as nineteenth - century landscape painting, with particular interest in the apocalyptic conjurings of John Martin (British, 1789 - 1854).

The book's central «idea» — of a narrator with no interior life — may sound dry and a little capricious, but in Cusk's hands it is transformed into an incredibly powerful narrative device for drawing out the lives of the characters the narrator meets while on a trip to Greece to teach a creative writing workshop.

Getting us to question the veracity of Tully's existence is gimmicky enough, and then Reitman and Cody resort to using an overplayed and contrived narrative device to explain Tully's inevitable departure from Marlo's life.

They both know it, and it forms the basis of the Junior Jedi Psychic Hotline that is the most interesting narrative device in Rian Johnson's competent next entry in the Star Wars saga.

This show has a lot of traditional narrative devices that do not necessarily play out in traditional narrative ways.

In a nice touch, he uses the latter - day testimony of Bulger's old partners as an effective narrative device: the feeble revenge of underlings grizzled, used, arrested, utterly spent.

Flash forwards, flackbacks, and other clever narrative devices make the story engaging.

While the context is occasionally love letters, as it is most recently, they've been a critical narrative device throughout his filmography.

The result is a disposable children's adventure story that wears its well - worn primary narrative device like an afterthought.

Again, good narrative devices used by Boyle.

The recurring fairy - tale narrative device might fool viewers into thinking FABLED has more of a story than is actually there.

Foster's character, for instance, is less a person than a transparent narrative device.

And it's obviously a shamelessly manipulative narrative device.

It is pretty predictable, and once the case of mistaken identity narrative device settles down, you can pretty much figure how the next forty minutes of the movie are going to play out.

While Lampoon is a thing of the past, Wain keeps A Futile and Stupid Gesture fresh with its zany narrative devices, while speaking louder to the modern - day anti-establishment.

It's an old and trusted narrative device, as through Norman's eyes we can see how his fellow crewmen — Shia LaBeouf's Bible - quoting psychopath, Jon Bernthal's primal Southerner and Michael Pena's earthy Hispanic — have been moulded if not warped by what they've seen and done.

Not all of it works: Recurring ghostly appearances by the dead Orlando are a hoary narrative device, and Aretha Franklin's «(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman» is a slightly jarring soundtrack choice.

It's a rather clunky narrative device.

Another, perhaps lesser, annoying narrative device is the «30 days to live» declaration by the doctor who examines Woodroof.

Again, it's as if LvT is arguing with himself over narrative devices and the strength of his own storytelling.

There aren't big gaps of plot development or brute force narrative devices.

The Kubruckian overtones of Interstellar make it an intriguing fit for Chris Nolan's storytelling style and mise - en - scène (re: visual composition); plus, wormholes present an obvious narrative device for jumping around in time (as he's inclined to do, regardless).

Employing a common narrative device, the movie begins during a rowdy dance party in Afghanistan in 2006.

Dench's performance, especially her breaking down of Bond in her office, made the character become much more than a necessary narrative device, but a vital character to each movie.

The use of flashbacks, too, far from being a cheap narrative device, serve to enrich and heighten earlier scenes marked by either cruel acts or startling revelations.

Whether the syrupy tunes (penned by the duo behind La La Land's songs) annoy or mesmerise, they carry the film through as proper narrative devices, rather than tacked on flourishes, which shows an impressive and touching level of genre - specific dedication from Jackman and director Michael Gracey.

The voiceover work from Emma Thompson is a lazy narrative device that feels like it was added in post to drive the message home.

For an 11th - grade narrative unit, I asked students to analyze classic narrative essays such as George Orwell's «Shooting an Elephant» and Amy Tan's «Mother Tongue» using the traditional plot diagram and paying attention to literary narrative devices.

The first chapter is pretty difficult to get through, but stick with it - the novel is fantastic, and Spufford's creative narrative device is a winner.

In 1939, Isaac Asimov began writing about the Positronic Brain, a reoccurring narrative device which endowed machines with human - like sentience.

The setting itself and wonderful soundtrack are used as their own narrative devices, which were nice, subtle ways to advance the story and Jiro's journey.

Fully inscribed within the Niger Delta while addressing the global circulation of energy capital, Saro - Wiwa develops narrative devices that render environmental and emotional ecosystems inseparable.

The Under Armour I Will What I Want spot, featuring ballerina Misty Copeland, uses a fantastic narrative device to tell the story.

Determined to break down the complexity of biography construction to its elements, it illustrates an economical narrative device.

Employing narrative devices such as foreshadowing, looking back, and mixing chronology, he casts light onto ideas shaping the past, present, and future.

A leading theory for the un-killing of these Avengers is linked to some sort of time reversal; the kind of narrative device that's a common refrain in comic book story lines.

Nolan's film became a well known success not just because he could successfully tell his story in an untraditional manner, but also because this confusion was far more than just an interesting narrative device.

By relying more on tone and image than traditional narrative devices, director Todd Haynes has fashioned a movie whose moodiness lingers.

What makes this an effective narrative device?

Rating: Hoopla Factor: Aside from one very clever narrative device and one unexpected sub plot, the film is a little less believable and a lot more lightweight.