Sentences with phrase «narrator never»

And it is certainly significant that the narrator never suggests that Nathan's actions in this case are in response to the prophetic word of Yahweh.

In what is ostensibly a coming - of - age story, the narrator never really shows psychological development.

Not exact matches

Like the narrator of the «Companion,» who was brought up in Lake Wobegon, we too left it years ago but have never completely escaped.

The song closes with the individualist narrator plaintively saying, And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries, and earlier, he obsessively spoke of Hiding in my room, safe within my womb, I touch no - one and no - one touches me.

«People who have never been in Narnia,» Lewis's narrator declares, «sometimes think that a thing can not be good and terrible at the same time.»

When, as the narrator puts it, «God's priest» was overruled by «Caesar's traffic cop,» he tells us, «Never to him had Christ's kingship seemed more distant.»

In the other sermon, the narrator tells numerous anecdotes about himself; he becomes a much more intrusive object in his own narratives; and in these stories his authority is never challenged.

Jake Baer, the narrator of Best Ride, never makes the NBA and satisfies his love of the game by playing in a Pennsylvania minor league; he has «no assets but a jump shot and a knee they can't cut no more out of.»

Narrator: Never leave your roller alone on the bed and always keep one hand on him during diaper changes.

Narrator: Your baby is never too young to play.

With Keith David again serving as narrator, and Jamie Foxx providing Robinson's voice reading correspondence and from his autobiography, Jackie Robinson exudes class — unhurried, stately, yet never dull.

Writer / Director Shaun Monson, collaborating with an astounding cast of 100 celebrity narrators (never before gathered in the history of filmmaking), presents a message of love, tragedy and hope, all set against the backdrop of some of the most compelling 20th and 21st Century footage imaginable.

At times, Perry courts those comparisons, especially to Anderson: Schwartzman plays Philip like a version of «Rushmore's» Max Fischer who never gained perspective, while the film employs the same use of fake book covers and an omniscient, literary narrator (Eric Bogosian instead of Alec Baldwin) as «The Royal Tenenbaums.»

I «The Pardon,» Richard WIlbur's poem about self - forgiveness and death, the tormented narrator writes, «I dreamt the past was never past redeeming.»

But in The Hateful Eight, in which he serves as the narrator, Tarantino only moves the story along, never distracting from the main players on screen.

And the film's narrator (Helena Bonham Carter), Conroy's never - seen big sister and the only female «character,» feels like an element the writers shoehorned in to hit a marketing quadrant goal.

There is also a narrator during this section who never returns again in the film and the music, indebted heavily to Danny Elfman, comes on way too heavy here, playing every note of Maguire looking for the raccoons like Elmer Fudd hunting Bugs Bunny.

Never once do you wonder if our narrator, David, is going to be lured by the wild life (of course he is), and Teller's delivery is stiff and unconvincing; he's no Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.

is good, clean fun and Matt Damon, in the lead role as real - life biochemist / whistle - blower / embezzler and most unreliable narrator Mark Whitacre, has never been better.

It's great to see Emma Thompson back in the game as Harold's narrator / author (I must admit I never got around to seeing Nanny McPhee, and the Harry Potter movies have so many stars these days you don't have time to appreciate each one) and Queen Latifah is another comedic actress doing well at a serious role here.

The story proper concerns one fateful summer in the narrator's life in which he loses something precious over the fence of lower - class Mr. Mertle's (James Earl Jones, who deserves but never chooses better) junkyard, where an evil dog called «The Great Fear» lives.

Guess I never got over the ironic waste of the expense of flying in and accommodating a professional narrator, but then nothing being recorded in a proper manner and space.

Most courses never address where the narrator's voice is, relative to the course participant.

«When people on television talk about walls and documents, I never thought they were talking about my mom,» muses Jason Riazi, the 12 - year - old narrator of Nadia Hashimi's action - packed The Sky at Our Feet.

Mr. Heming, the narrator of A Pleasure and a Calling, is more than an uninvited guest: He's the guest you never knew...

And, as discussed on this blog last month, narrator Rose's age is never actually stated.

«Though she was always hoping,» the narrator remarks as she watches her mother admiring the rug, «she never really expected things to turn out well.

I have never read a book in which the narrator describes for you, as if you are the only reader, what is going on in his mind.

A never - named fiftyish narrator is back in his childhood homeland in rural England.

In fact, the narrator, Victor, is African - American, an ex-slave in a contemporary version of the United States with a speculative - fiction twist: the Civil War never happened, meaning that slavery is still legal (in portions of the country, anyway).

A mystery in an enigma in a riddle, but I will never forget the unnamed narrator or Miss Aurelia, Uncle Carbo, Charlotte Ann Morrison or the God throwers on winter solstice with their razor - embellished fire batons out there naked in the snow and throwing for the stars.

I gather that there are authors who, once they are satisfied with the narrator's general approach, never listen to the full book, but I can't imagine not applying this quality assurance check.

The novel hangs on the delicate tension in the adolescent narrator's deadpan voice — never cute, never cloying.

Under Gloria, our narrator develops into a student of the game by dressing the part, living the part and finding the confidence she never knew she had.

As discussed on this blog series all the way back in November, narrator Rose's age is never actually specified.

Never Let Me Go is set in an alternative England in the 1990s with much of the action taking place as the narrator looks back on her childhood 20 years before.

Kidnapped at the age of 19, Ma has spent the past seven years confined to a 12x12 room, where her only company — aside from nightly visits from her captor — is her 5 - year - old son, Jack, who has never even been outside of the room and who serves as the book's narrator.

Confident and brilliant but never smug, the main narrator of Brief and Wondrous is so immediately likable, and the affection he has for the characters in his story so contagious, that you instantly fall in love with all of them.

The unnamed narrator works as a translator, though we never learn her country of origin.

When the novel begins, Christopher, the narrator's husband, has been in Greece for a month to conduct research for a book, a general - interest «study of mourning rituals around the world» — an odd topic, the narrator thinks, for a «careless flirt» in his early 40s who has never suffered loss.

In our attempt to repair the damage done to certain groups by compensating them, we never can give back the basic dignity we have taken from them - pennyp How did you react when the narrator created Dickens's boundary lines, and Marpessa ejected strangers from the bus?

You're right — audio is a tremendous investment of time for a narrator... I'd never be able to do it.

Marianne, a stone carver, educates the narrator on the difference between gargoyles and grotesques: A gargoyle is a decorated water spout, from the French word gargouille from which the verb gargle originates; whereas a grotesque can be decorative or weight supporting, but is never a water spout.

Literature is replete with unreliable narrators, but you've never encountered an unreliable narrator like the...

If you have never recorded an audiobook, I suggest that you first watch prolific and award - winning audiobook narrator and teacher Sean Pratt «s video «So You Want to Be An Audiobook Narratornarrator and teacher Sean Pratt «s video «So You Want to Be An Audiobook NarratorNarrator».

I never felt pulled into the story because, even though it is written in first person, I never felt like I was connecting with the narrator, Anastasia Steele.

Now, I don't want or need to know every thought of a character, but there has to be some connection with the narrator to keep me from skipping forward — or throwing the book down never to be read again.

Narrator: Last tip: chewing alone can never replace regular brushing.

Though Kohnstamm tries to distance himself from Garland's narrator and that easy trap of «spending your time with a roving band of people like yourself,» he never does.

The mods Nairo has been using for months are the most hilarious thing ever, and it never gets old, especially the narrator saying «Banned» when the game ends, D1 announcer going «DESTRUC» when someone spikes, and the 3D Sanic model.