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  • He says that by dinner time they will be able to show a whole connected narrative.   (source)
  • I shall soon be in the position of being able to put into a single connected narrative one of the most singular and sensational crimes of modern times.   (source)
  • Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.   (source)
  • The characters of the narrative would not be warmed and rendered malleable by any heat that I could kindle at my intellectual forge.   (source)
  • His tale is connected and told with an appearance of the simplest truth, yet I own to you that the letters of Felix and Safie, which he showed me, and the apparition of the monster seen from our ship, brought to me a greater conviction of the truth of his narrative than his asseverations, however earnest and connected.   (source)
  • I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won.†   (source)
  • Wang was deeply absorbed by the narrative and temporarily forgot about the danger and terror he faced.†   (source)
  • But with Chekhov and Tolstoy, we Russians have set the bronze bookends on the mantelpiece of narrative.†   (source)
  • There are no composite characters and no narrative shortcuts.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of our exchange of letters—which was later expanded by face-to-face visits at the prison—I was surprised to find just how much we did have in common, aside from our names, and how much our narratives intersected before they fatefully diverged.†   (source)
  • The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics.†   (source)
  • A combination of contradictory words The outcome of a sequence of events An implied reference to a literary or historical event A symbolic story or narrative.†   (source)
  • —Richard Allen and Absalom Jones A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793.†   (source)
  • Tragic narratives of mothers killing their children were national sensations.†   (source)
  • He leaned forward respectfully as Bobby Lee Cook guided him gently through a narrative of his modest childhood in Gordon, Georgia.†   (source)
  • It was a story the neighbors surely followed with relish, eager for clues to what was really going on, and ready to supply any memories or speculation that would explain unaccountable twists in the narrative.†   (source)
  • Although he did not (at the time) delineate the plot of this Divine Narrative to me, I know that's what he believed: he, Owen Meany, had interrupted the Angel of Death at her holy work; she had reassigned the task—she gave it to him.†   (source)
  • Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative.†   (source)
  • He's made a narrative mistake.†   (source)
  • They'll use tape recorders and conduct what he calls "oral histories," asking the person questions, transcribing the answers, and putting it together in chronological order as a narrative.†   (source)
  • Each split-level contained a narrative.†   (source)
  • The history of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells raises important issues regarding science, ethics, race, and class; I've done my best to present them clearly within the narrative of the Lacks story, and I've included an afterword addressing the current legal and ethical debate surrounding tissue ownership and research.†   (source)
  • Somehow, even shrouded and entombed in the storage locker, it had worked itself free and into some fraudulent public narrative, a radiance that glowed in the mind of the world. xvi.†   (source)
  • She slammed into a Norman narrative tapestry, bringing it tumbling down on top of her.†   (source)
  • If our plan is to work, we must wait until it is narratively convenient.†   (source)
  • There are other stories woven in with this narrative.†   (source)
  • His point of view began to intrude on the narrative.†   (source)
  • Does that sound like a man who didn't understand what his narrative signified?†   (source)
  • As the novel developed over the next year, and as my own ideas clarified, it became apparent that the chapter had no proper home in the larger narrative.†   (source)
  • I may have exaggerated my brave defense against Cade and Mikey—just for narrative effect, you understand.†   (source)
  • What Pari had always wanted from her mother was the glue to bond together her loose, disjointed scraps of memory, to turn them into some sort of cohesive narrative.†   (source)
  • There was no narrative voice.†   (source)
  • The Wrong Ending Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.†   (source)
  • A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative.†   (source)
  • By 11 a. m., I felt I had a better narrative arc; maybe it would work.†   (source)
  • He wanted a narrative to help him express to them not only the depth of his love, but also to help them understand what had been going on in his inside world.†   (source)
  • "I want to see if different cultures' folktales conform to Teccam's theory of narrative septagy."†   (source)
  • I realized my narrative was completely wrong.†   (source)
  • But again, the stories in the Bible storybooks we read to him were very narrative-oriented, and just a couple of hundred words each.†   (source)
  • My solution—break the narrative into parts that had to be reassembled by the reader—seemed to me a good idea, the execution of which does not satisfy me now.†   (source)
  • "It's called narrative focus, Sal—look it up," Dan said aloud.†   (source)
  • But from a narrative point of view, in 105 pages nothing happens.†   (source)
  • But Nye, in pursuit of the narrative, raced his pen, and Church, lazily slamming a shut hand against an open palm, said nothing-until suddenly he said.†   (source)
  • At the end of my narrative I said there were issues that I wanted us to examine.†   (source)
  • This lack of artifice owes as much to the rousing arrangement of songs, which blend seamlessly together, as it does to Echevarri's poignant narrative.†   (source)
  • (RUTH just looks at MAMA meaningfully and MAMA opens her mouth to speak as TRAVIS bursts in) TRAVIS: (Excited and full of narrative, coming directly to his mother) Mama, you should of seen the rat ….†   (source)
  • Sometimes these stories were what linguists call temporal narratives.†   (source)
  • And together, as we sorted through thousands of slides, reviewed a decade's worth of documents and videos, recorded hundreds of hours of interviews, and traveled to visit with the people who are central to this unlikeliest of narratives, we brought this book to life.†   (source)
  • Zande constructed a parallel narrative, in which a sailor who brings doom upon his ship challenges students with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to retrieve his sunken treasure.†   (source)
  • She ceased her narrative, and when he made no immediate comment, she thought at first that the story had put him to sleep.†   (source)
  • No real narrative power.†   (source)
  • After a moment, Vida attempts to wrestle Cedric's point about shared values and common ground back to the preordained narrative.†   (source)
  • Depending on the angle the story took, Southern Living or even Reader's Digest might be interested for their October issue; if it ended up being more literary and narrative, maybe Harper's or even the New Yorker.†   (source)
  • Adam, do you see Collateral Damage as having a single narrative?†   (source)
  • "—because they all had a narrative of Christ's Passion in them… which the Church needed, in order for the Eucharist to mean something."†   (source)
  • Only Ian tired of this narrative.†   (source)
  • Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction?†   (source)
  • This is a rather technical narrative, centering on complex issues of science.†   (source)
  • In fact it would be narratively satisfying, she considered.†   (source)
  • She charts sequences and events with colored pencils, shuffling her diagrams until they start to make sense, a possible narrative.†   (source)
  • I said to Sharon, "One of the things I've noticed about some of the genocide narratives I've read, people will say, 'God spared me.†   (source)
  • In our narrative, Martin Dugard and I go only as far as the evidence takes us.†   (source)
  • We talked excitedly about the fight, each of us recounting the event in four separate and distorted narratives of the exact same events.†   (source)
  • All through his narrative he never calls my father by his name, christian or surname, just "this chap," or "that fellow."†   (source)
  • Leaning forward, Ginnarr continued his brother's narrative.†   (source)
  • I will know nothing of the crafts of argument or narrative or drama.†   (source)
  • He had begun that first narrative in Switzerland with the words My life began six months ago on a small island in the Mediterranean called Ile de Port Noir.†   (source)
  • He resumed his narrative.†   (source)
  • Gottschall's encouraging thesis is that human beings are natural storytellers—that they can't help telling stories, and that they turn things that aren't really stories into stories because they like narratives so much.†   (source)
  • What narrative is that?†   (source)
  • "Both books are about a Russian peasant, around the turn of the century," he said, in what was, for his implacably matter-of-fact voice, a rather narrative tone.†   (source)
  • But to return to my narrative: By the time I had finished my business with Peru, it had begun to grow quite dark and the surrounding hills seemed to be closing in on me.†   (source)
  • I was conscious of constructing the novel out of many different kinds of narratives or stories to celebrate storytelling with the spoken as well as the written word.†   (source)
  • But she was an adept enough reader to marvel at Faulkner's intricacy of narrative and his turbulent power.†   (source)
  • When I started this narrative, I knew that sooner or later I would have to have a go at Texas, and I dreaded it.†   (source)
  • The larger narrative is another matter.†   (source)
  • The sweetness of my love seemed to bring the dark and to swing me gently in its suspended wind; I sank into familiarity; but the story of my love, the long narrative of the incident on the stairs, had vanished.†   (source)
  • In this narrative of mine I have departed from my usual practice of reporting only those incidents and scenes at which I myself was present.   (source)
  • Your narrative promises to be a most interesting one.   (source)
  • And a more strange narrative than the two between them unfold it has not been my lot to come across.   (source)
  • She carried this point, and Sir Thomas's narrative proceeded.   (source)
  • He then told me that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure.   (source)
  • Harker was still and quiet; but over his face, as the awful narrative went on, came a grey look which deepened and deepened in the morning light, till when the first red streak of the coming dawn shot up, the flesh stood darkly out against the whitening hair.   (source)
  • Jealousy and bitterness had been suspended: selfishness was lost in the common cause; but at the moment of her appearance, Frederick was listening with looks of devotion to Agatha's narrative, and pressing her hand to his heart; and as soon as she could notice this, and see that, in spite of the shock of her words, he still kept his station and retained her sister's hand, her wounded heart swelled again with injury, and looking as red as she had been white before, she turned out of the…   (source)
  • Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.   (source)
  • But I perceive your thoughts; you do not credit my narrative and do not intend to pursue my enemy with the punishment which is his desert.   (source)
  • It was so agreeable to her to see him again, and hear him talk, to have her ear amused and her whole comprehension filled by his narratives, that she began particularly to feel how dreadfully she must have missed him, and how impossible it would have been for her to bear a lengthened absence.   (source)
    narratives = stories
  • It will be seen, likewise, that this Custom-House sketch has a certain propriety, of a kind always recognised in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages came into my possession, and as offering proofs of the authenticity of a narrative therein contained.   (source)
    narrative = story
  • The original papers, together with the scarlet letter itself—a most curious relic—are still in my possession, and shall be freely exhibited to whomsoever, induced by the great interest of the narrative, may desire a sight of them.   (source)
  • I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power.   (source)
  • Aged persons, alive in the time of Mr. Surveyor Pue, and from whose oral testimony he had made up his narrative, remembered her, in their youth, as a very old, but not decrepit woman, of a stately and solemn aspect.   (source)
  • I might, for instance, have contented myself with writing out the narratives of a veteran shipmaster, one of the Inspectors, whom I should be most ungrateful not to mention, since scarcely a day passed that he did not stir me to laughter and admiration by his marvelous gifts as a story-teller.   (source)
    narratives = stories
  • If so, why did she not take her taped narrative with her?†   (source)
  • When the narrative was over, the Indians sprang to their feet.†   (source)
  • A ringing noise in her ears obliterated Ada Belle's narrative.†   (source)
  • It can't have epic scope, it can't undertake subplots, it can't carry much narrative water.†   (source)
  • The sky takes on content, feeling, an exalted narrative life.†   (source)
  • This realization shattered the narrative I told about my life.†   (source)
  • The corruption narrative that he seemed intent to expose was harder to assess.†   (source)
  • "So she's giving me the narrative of my frame-up."†   (source)
  • When his narrative was complete, Eragon fell silent, brooding on all that had occurred.†   (source)
  • There had been more dynamic colors, a deeper sense of narrative sweep.†   (source)
  • The rapes we "see" do in fact take place in the narrative, but they are strangely distanced from us.†   (source)
  • You don't encounter her directly, you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.†   (source)
  • In mysteries, whatever layering there may be elsewhere, the murders live on the narrative surface.†   (source)
  • A single narrative sweep, not ten thousand wisps of disinformation.†   (source)
  • At no time as the narrative unfolded did anyone stumble or freeze or look lost.†   (source)
  • When Arya paused to regain her breath, Blodhgarm picked up the thread of her narrative.†   (source)
  • Under Jake's guidance, she continued her narrative.†   (source)
  • She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself.†   (source)
  • But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.†   (source)
  • I would tick off each staging of the narrative, every known turn and counter-turn.†   (source)
  • Ancil's narrative ran for fifty-eight minutes.†   (source)
  • But then, in the midst of the narratives I read, I lost the will to intellectualize it.†   (source)
  • Narratives from the Crib (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989).†   (source)
  • She stopped her narrative long enough to dab her eyes with the tissue.†   (source)
  • She was making up stories, narratives, that explained and organized the things that happened to her.†   (source)
  • There were times when I thought the narrative was taking ridiculous directions.†   (source)
  • I find that the most difficult thing in prose narrative is linking one thing with the other.†   (source)
  • He suspects now that the eyes did not originate with Mrs. Moodie, and wonders what other parts of her narrative were due to MacKenzie's own flamboyant tastes as a raconteur.†   (source)
  • We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.†   (source)
  • —Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793.†   (source)
  • The interminable pages about light and stone and water, a narrative split between three different points of view, the hovering stillness of nothing much seeming to happen—none of this could conceal her cowardice.†   (source)
  • They've read Native narratives and contrasting contemporaneous viewpoints and taken a field trip to The Abbe, the Indian museum in Bar Harbor, and now they have to do a research report on the subject worth a third of their final grade.†   (source)
  • But I find comfort in it, in the idea of a pattern, of a narrative of my life taking shape, like a photograph in a darkroom, a story that slowly emerges and affirms the good I have always wanted to see in myself.†   (source)
  • They thought they were crafting their own stories, but they were only tracing over the same old narratives, generation after generation.†   (source)
  • Also, there is a certain reflective quality about the narrative that would to my mind rule out synchronicity.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this is also why she's so successful now: with the direction her music traveled, from folk to rock, and with the visual aid of those appalling rock videos—those lazy-minded, sleazy associations of "images" that pass for narrative on all the rock-video television channels around the world—irony is no longer necessary.†   (source)
  • He must concentrate his intellectual forces; he can't afford to flag now, give in to lethargy, lose hold of the thread he's been following over the course of these past weeks, for at last they are approaching together the centre of Grace's narrative.†   (source)
  • Hearing "civilized" languages debase humans, watching cultural exorcisms debase literature, seeing oneself preserved in the amber of disqualifying metaphors—I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was thirty years ago.†   (source)
  • They had us, Rose and me, in their suffering, but they didn't seem to have what we had with each other, a kind of ongoing narrative and commentary about what was happening that grew out of our conversations, our rolled eyes, our sighs and jokes and irritated remarks.†   (source)
  • In the generations to come, I tell you there will be no new authors to supplant these two as the alpha and omega of narrative.†   (source)
  • Allen and Jones wrote their own pamphlet, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in 1793, which described what the African-Americans of Philadelphia had done to help their fellow citizens during the epidemic.†   (source)
  • I borrowed your observation that Tolstoy and Chekhov were the bookends of narrative, invoked Tchaikovsky, and then ordered the brute a serving of caviar.†   (source)
  • I was thinking of the hero narrative: the husband who sticks by his wife through the horrible decline in her family's circumstances.†   (source)
  • It was risky, but we hoped that national press coverage of our side of the story would change the narrative.†   (source)
  • Briony was encouraged to read her stories aloud in the library and it surprised her parents and older sister to hear their quiet girl perform so boldly, making big gestures with her free arm, arching her eyebrows as she did the voices, and looking up from the page for seconds at a time as she read in order to gaze into one face after the other, unapologetically demanding her family's total attention as she cast her narrative spell.†   (source)
  • His personal library of majestic narratives by the likes of Balzac, Dickens, and Tolstoy had been left behind in Paris.†   (source)
  • I could feel her girl-brain buzzing, turning Amy's disappearance into a frothy, scandalous romance, ignoring any reality that didn't suit the narrative.†   (source)
  • A client's life often depends on his lawyer's ability to create a mitigation narrative that contextualizes his poor decisions or violent behavior.†   (source)
  • Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers' plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children's games.†   (source)
  • …each of the three figures, would it not be possible to yet them before us with greater economy, still keeping some of the vivid writing about light and stone and water which you do so well—but then move on to create some tension, some light and shade within the narrative itself Your most sophisticated readers might be well up on the latest Bergsonian theories of consciousness, but I'm sure they retain a childlike desire to be told a story, to be held in suspense, to know what happens.†   (source)
  • From its focus on his pretrial placement on death row to the extra security surrounding his court appearances, the narrative in the press was dear: This man was extremely dangerous.†   (source)
  • At this early stage, the inspector was careful not to oppress the young girl with probing questions, and within this sensitively created space she was able to build and shape her narrative in her own words and establish the key facts: there was just sufficient light for her to recognize a familiar face; when he shrank away from her and circled the clearing, his movements and height were familiar to her as well.†   (source)
  • Those stories—myth, archetype, religious narrative, the great body of literature—are always with us.†   (source)
  • The supporters whom the State had brought to court and the victim's family seemed confused by the evidence we were presenting—it complicated the simple narrative they had fully embraced about Walter's guilt and the need for swift and certain punishment.†   (source)
  • Different: no guilty party exists in the narrative (unless you count the author, who is present everywhere and nowhere).†   (source)
  • Chapman hadn't prosecuted the case, and I had hoped that he might not want to defend something so unreliable, but it was clear that he was locked into this narrative just like everyone else who had been involved.†   (source)
  • The beauty of this poem lies, in part, in the tension between the small package and the large emotional and narrative scene it contains.†   (source)
  • Without the pathos of the doomed boy, we have a picture of farming and merchant shipping with no narrative or thematic power.†   (source)
  • Later (chronologically, although it takes place previously in the narrative), when Beloved makes her appearance, she emerges from water.†   (source)
  • But let's give old Hemingway some credit here; the narrative is more subtle than I've just made it sound.†   (source)
  • O'Brien signals the difference between novelist and character in the structuring of the two narrative frames.†   (source)
  • THERE'S A VERY OLD TRADITION in poetry of adding a little stanza, shorter than the rest, at the end of a long narrative poem or sometimes a book of poems.†   (source)
  • Chapter 23 — It's Never Just Heart Disease …… ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITE NOVELS IS a gem of narrative misdirection by Ford Madox Ford called The Good Soldier (1915).†   (source)
  • The sex, then, like the narrative, is a kind of linguisticphilosophical game that ensnares us and implicates us in the crimes we would officially denounce.†   (source)
  • Franz Kafka, a latter-day Poe, uses the dynamic in stories like "The Metamorphosis" (1915) and "A Hunger Artist" (1924), where, in a nifty reversal of the traditional vampire narrative, crowds of onlookers watch as the artist's fasting consumes him.†   (source)
  • His strength of heart, both in terms of bravery and of forming serious attachments, is in question throughout the narrative, at least in his own mind, and at the end he misjudges an enemy and his miscalculation causes the death of his best friend, who happens to be the son of the local chieftain.†   (source)
  • Ask questions of the text: what's the writer doing with this image, this object, this act; what possibilities are suggested by the movement of the narrative or the lyric; and most important, what does it _feel like it's doing?†   (source)
  • What if you don't see all this going on in the story, if you read it simply as a narrative of a young woman making an ill-advised trip on which she learns something about her world, if you don't see Persephone or Eve or any other mythic figures in the imagery?†   (source)
  • I believe what happens here and in other stories and novels (The Sacred Fount [1901] comes to mind) is that he deems the figure of the consuming spirit or vampiric personality a useful narrative vehicle.†   (source)
  • Although the story would go in different directions with a change of literary model, in either case it gains a kind of resonance from these different levels of narrative that begin to emerge; the story is no longer all on the surface but begins to have depth.†   (source)
  • In an essay called "Ulysses, Order, and Myth (1923)," Eliot extols the virtues of Joyce's newly published masterpiece, and proclaims that, whereas writers of previous generations relied on the "narrative method," modern writers can, following Joyce's example, employ the "mythic method."†   (source)
  • Carter employs not only materials from earlier texts but also her knowledge of our responses to them in order to double-cross us, to set us up for a certain kind of thinking so that she can play a larger trick in the narrative.†   (source)
  • Let's think about two categories of violence in literature: the specific injury that authors cause characters to visit on one another or on themselves, and the narrative violence that causes characters harm in general.†   (source)
  • Carter's sleight of narrative challenges our expectations and keeps us on our feet, but it also takes what could seem merely a tawdry incident and reminds us, throughits Shakespearean parallels, that there is nothing new in young men mistreating the women who love them, and that those without power in relationships have always had to be creative in finding ways to exert some control of their own.†   (source)
  • Coover and Carter put the emphasis on the old story itself, while most writers are going to dredge up pieces of the old tale to shoreup aspects of their own narratives without placing the focus on "Hansel and Gretel" or "Rapunzel."†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late fourteenth century) and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen (1596), two of the great quest narratives from early English literature, also have what modern readers must consider cartoonish elements.†   (source)
  • Both terms are central to the narrative: flight as escape or confrontation; mercy the unspoken wish of the novel's population.†   (source)
  • A few more sentences served to end his narrative, briefly mentioning the reason they had left Du Weldenvarden and then summarizing their journey thence.†   (source)
  • Stick to the convoluted narrative that would become clearer to the subject in stages once he made his first moves, which he had to make because you were gone.†   (source)
  • Out of fire grew narrative.†   (source)
  • This time out, I returned the compliment and ignored the shallowness of such views and, again, rooted the narrative in a landscape already tainted by the fact that it existed.†   (source)
  • From the piles of scrolls and books in front of him, Jeod picked up a slim volume bound in red leather and began his narrative for the third time: "Some five hundred years ago, as best I can tell—".†   (source)
  • The defense waived cross-examination, a policy they pursued with the next three witnesses (Nancy Ewalt's father, Clarence, and Sheriff Earl Robinson, and the county coroner, Dr. Robert Fenton), each of whom added to the narrative of events that sunny November morning: the discovery, finally, of all four victims, and accounts of how they looked, and, from Dr. Fenton, a clinical diagnosis of why-"Severe traumas to brain and vital cranial structures inflicted by a shotgun.†   (source)
  • Eragon barely glanced at the landscape, for the gallery's inner wall was covered with a single continuous painting, a gigantic narrative band that began with a depiction of the dwarves' creation under Helzvog's hand.†   (source)
  • The truth was often great enough to cover in its self-contradictory expanse at least six points of view, and where one was weak or incomplete the others continued the narrative.†   (source)
  • He, in turn, responded by blaming their teenaged son, and after a spirited back-and-forth, two more actors rushed onstage, playing two different characters in the same narrative.†   (source)
  • And he has no interest in throwing another one in Syria, especially when it conflicts with the narrative.†   (source)
  • Why would a master of narrative stop his narrative dead before it has much chance to begin generating?†   (source)
  • The rest of the "gospel" was not a narrative of Jesus's life, like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but a collection of quotes by Jesus, all beginning with the words Jesus said.†   (source)
  • In such an overtly, stereotypically male narrative, I thought that straightforward chronology would be more suitable than the kind of play with sequence and time I had employed in my previous novels.†   (source)
  • The only limitation I've discovered is in regard to a handful of carefully reported details that have not found a place in the narrative.†   (source)
  • Echevarri's own training in the classical style, the work takes one particular dance, the shingaling, and creates a visual narrative through which the rest of the work weaves.†   (source)
  • The detailed confusion of Marvin's narrative, people's memories mixed with his own, shaped to bending time.†   (source)
  • Webb could not allow any lapses in the narrative; it had to be clear from the beginning — from that moment when he spoke to Marie over the gymnasium phone and heard her say.†   (source)
  • The narrative excitement of the great scientific theories, far from residing in their reassuring simplicity, lies in their similarly radical exclusions, their shocks: Everything in the whole universe is instantly attracting everything else!†   (source)
  • Nick had the enduring stuff of narrative, the thing that doesn't have to be filled in with speculation and hearsay Of course Matt thought his brother was guilty of emotional delusion.†   (source)
  • But Hoagland would have wanted me to continue pushing him, to extend the evening's narrative to its logical and fitting end.†   (source)
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