Sentences with phrase «straight narrative»

Particularly viewed in a global context and aside from straight narrative books, the print - at - retail component has a long way to go before it becomes irrelevant.

There is a story here that is at times fantastic, with even the possibility for one of best straight narratives of the year so far.

He veered away from straight narrative in favor of experiential and perceptual qualities resulting from the dynamic interplay between actors and audience.

At first glance, Tansey's distinctive paintings appear to depict straight narrative scenes but closer scrutiny reveals an undercurrent of quirks and visual puns.

And there's an important distinction there: practical nonfiction is often highly illustrated (with four - color photos), while fiction is almost always straight narrative (with black - and - white text).

It came in the form of placing certain elements into an otherwise straight narrative that wouldn't quite belong there, creating a very sophisticated conflict between a visually fluent portrayal and a contextually incoherent narrative.

Don't mix gay narrative with straight narrative.

Critic Consensus: Legion returns with a smart, strange second season that settles into a straighter narrative without sacrificing its unique sensibilities.

The film's three elegantly structured sections (divided along geography lines) function more as observant, vibrant vignettes than straight narratives.

Often though, the movie seems to forget that approach and treats many scenes as a straight narrative.

Director Ariel Vromen has given us is a simple A to B gangster movie that moves forward in a straight narrative without any grandiose objectives like that of The Godfather or Goodfellas.

The film's scenes are also associatively patched together (Carbone also edited the film), evoking a series of vignettes rather than a straight narrative.

In a similar style to his previous feature Beginners (which earned Christopher Plummer an Oscar in 2012), the director foregoes a straight narrative in favour of creating a movie which feels almost like someone warmly re-living the vital moments of their life, a visual poem or essay about the influences — the era, the people you know, the music and literature you consume — that shape one's identity.

This was one of the easiest to follow but I wonder when authors will return to a straight narrative.

If your book is a straight narrative (e.g., a novel or memoir) with little more than chapter breaks, then it is possible for the average author to handle the EPUB formatting on her own (although there's nothing wrong with hiring someone to prepare the files for you).

It felt like it would be untrue to the story to try to write a straight narrative out of lyrical memory.»

A straight narrative would've been a lie.

But it wouldn't have been a straight narrative.

The first graphic novel ever nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the 2007 Printz Award, its twisting narrative, ironic tone, classical page composition, and deep, human insights stand alone but could also make an excellent contrast for the straight narrative, epic sweep, experimental art, and deep, human insights of another graphic novel that explores themes of immigration, Shaun Tan's The Arrival (2007).

«He doesn't give us a straight narrative,» Kathryn Kanjo added.

Instead of a straight narrative, he engages in the sort of colloquial musicality mastered by New York School poet friends like Frank O'Hara and Frank Lima as well as the atavistic cadences and syntactic reiterations of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett.