Sentences with phrase «own narrative devices»

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.

Now, this is more of a narrative device than a cause - effect relationship, especially for Cincy.

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

If the old - style gameplay and a little rust on the narrative devices does not scare you, Modern Warfare Remastered could be a good alternative to the most reknowned shooter of this year, hiding behind a decade of history a fun and quick gameplay.

But you can recognize the crudeness of the movie's narrative devices and still have an awfully good time.

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

It harks back to Martin Scorsese's New York nightmare Taxi Driver by using a journal as a narrative device.

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

And it's obviously a shamelessly manipulative narrative device.

It's an intriguing tale, and one that has been told time and time again, the game keeping a balance between factual content and narrative devices.

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.

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

Every few episodes there is a narrative device that threatens to drastically shake up the comfortable, familiar setting of the show.

I realise that at this stage of the book, Bilbo is a narrative device rather than an active character, but there is still a lack of that ordinary Hobbitness that made the previous two films so heart - warming.

It kind of worked, bringing a nice relationship between the two characters and Farrell acting as a narrative device for the audience to explore McClane's character a bit more.

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

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.

This film moves along haphazardly and half - heartedly, rarely following through on any of its structural or narrative devices.

Haneke has no use for the usual grab - bag of worn out narrative devices.

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.

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

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.

Complaints about production values, narrative devices, visual metaphors were subdued when African directors began following the principles of the Third Cinema movement and rejected the Hollywood model.

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

Amnesia is one of those old go - to tropes in gaming: an oft - used narrative device, conveniently paving the way for some nice scene - setting while also justifying drawn - out tutorials.

We haven't even mentioned the narrative device used to tell the story of «Moby Dick» s inception, as the author of that classic American epic, Herman Melville, is himself too a character in Howard's whale tale.

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).

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.

Alexa Vega plays Breslin's sister and the writers see her as a narrative device to kick off the rivalries between Purefoy and Bean.

Price similarly functions as a narrative device (a Terminator-esque threat meant to keep Neeson and Kinnaman running), but even in a mostly wordless performance, Common manages to make the hitman an interesting and frightening figure.

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.

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

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.

Buschel's narrative device of using therapy sessions can feed his bad habit for expository dialogue, but «The Phenom» gets incredible depth from Simmons» major performance.

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.

But it has also been criticized for a perceived tone - deafness toward racism and / or absolving racism through Sam Rockwell's bigoted cop character, as well as relegating the realities of racism in America to background fodder and narrative devices, rather than in - depth explorations.

Again, good narrative devices used by Boyle.

Tony Stark narrates his experiences post-Avengers throughout Iron Man 3, and upon first viewing the narrative device is fun, but also pretty unnecessary.

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.

Original in the best sense of the word, with at least one narrative device I don't think I've seen before.

What makes this an effective narrative device?

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.

At the risk of demystifying the novel, the use of reincarnation was initially a narrative device; a way of structuring and bringing together all of my separate research interests in China past and present.

Loved the writing style and the narrative device of old journals.

He uses the narrative device of a fictitious church leadership team to illustrate his points in an engaging manner and offers us a professional book, for male and female leaders, written at a trade level.

Use a text editor to create text strings for NPCs or other narrative devices your game might have.

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

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

Not only are its narrative devices unique, but The Division adds a new twist to the competitive multiplayer space.