narrative flow
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnarrativeandflow
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narrative
adjective
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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flow
noun
uk/fləʊ/us/floʊ/
the movement of something in ...
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(Definition ofnarrativeandflowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnarrative flow
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What happens instead is a type of dialogue or interaction with the increasingly familiar and predictablenarrativeflowof the notes.
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The melody is disarmed of itsnarrativeflowand reduced to a sound object - it becomes an instrument.
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For example, both ballet-pantomimes and operas feature divertissements, episodes of dance that interrupt thenarrativeflowof the larger work.
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However, the case studies, while interesting, tend to break thenarrativeflow.
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The issues remain the author's objects posited in anarrativeflowand are insufficiently dissolved into the play's subjectivity.
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This sense of subjectivity as continuousnarrativeflow, rather than discontinuous narrative rupture is important.
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In fact, at times the amount of support data may be excessive, resulting in a somewhat awkwardnarrativeflowin parts.
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These transcripts were digitized and narrowed down until she felt the material hadnarrativeflowand would resonate emotionally with the audience.
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Individuals organize experience in a constantnarrativeflow, starting with small spatial stories.
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Every so often an unusual voicing, phrase grouping or accent spices up thenarrativeflow, yet never for the sake of effect or novelty alone.
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Secondly, the rise of subcultures promoting such creations, and lastly, the growth of value adding media conglomerates, which foster image, idea andnarrativeflow.
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His unreliable narrator switches rapidly between first- and third-person perspectives, interruptingnarrativeflowwith epistolary items from fictional sources.
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He switches rapidly between a first and third person view, and intersperses thatnarrativeflowwith excerpts from epistolary items.
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One effect of this alteration in song order was to disrupt thenarrativeflowof the album's story.
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Suchnarrativeflowis a highly adaptive process, crucial for planning, evaluating, explaining, as well as recalling the past and imagining a future.
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It is also shared that the film has a distinctly solidnarrativeflow, and a visual flair that outwits the budgetary constraints of a local independent production.
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Apart from these divisions the narrative flows uninterrupted.
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The series proved unusual among children's cartoons of its time by the strongnarrativeflowthat linked episodes in sequence with continuing storylines and a suspenseful threading of subplots.
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Nonprofessional acting obviously interruptsnarrativeflow.
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