continuous narrative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontinuousandnarrative
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continuous
adjective
uk/kənˈtɪn.ju.əs/us/kənˈtɪn.ju.əs/
without a pause ...
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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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(Definition ofcontinuousandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Nocontinuousnarrativenor exposition of political philosophy is attempted by her.
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Subsequent sections of the book, however, may present the reader with a slightly more difficult task, as acontinuousnarrativeis less evident.
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This sense of subjectivity ascontinuousnarrativeflow, rather than discontinuous narrative rupture is important.
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Books with as many contributors as this tend to read like collections of distinct chapters rather than as acontinuousnarrative, and the present work is no exception.
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Gunn's point about the primacy of culture serves as the volume's leitmotiv, though, as he warns, a new single,continuousnarrativeabout the middle classes is neither possible nor desirable.
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The episodes were later connected by acontinuousnarrative.
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In the second half of the century, a different, livelier style ofcontinuousnarrativeillustration became popular.
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The entire poem consists of a series of isolated episodes which can be linked into acontinuousnarrative.
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During ordinary non-dream sleep, people who are awakened report only vague and sketchy thoughts, and their experiences do not cohere into acontinuousnarrative.
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It recounts, in acontinuousnarrative, the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons.
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Thiscontinuousnarrativecan be broken down into a series of events.
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They occupy three vast lunettes, each of them a singlecontinuousnarrativecomposition.
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The parts are thematically related, but do not necessarily form acontinuousnarrative.
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Moreover, page after page is covered with acontinuousnarrativeof his career, written around the photographs.
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Each volume of the series stands alone as a single adventure but the books can be read together as an ongoing,continuousnarrativein which the characters grow and change.
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Each volume of the series stands alone as a single adventure or the books can be read together as an ongoing,continuousnarrativein which the characters grow and change.
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They are called novels because they are continuous narratives with a unified theme.
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