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• He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.From the entry off
• The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator.From the entry point of view
• Like the waltzer, the narrator in “A Telephone Call” is her own worst enemy.2020 June 22, Nasrullah Mambrol, “Analysis of Dorothy Parker’s Stories”, in Literary Theory and Criticism. From the entry selfindulgence
• Pirsig’s narrator declares that the real world is a seamless continuum of the material and metaphysical.2017 April 24, Paul Vitello, “Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88”, in The New York Times…. From the entry gnomic
• Instead, an extradiegetic narrator renders detached testimony of the hero's traumatic story in the Thatcher era.2011, José M. Yebra, “A Terrible Beauty: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Trauma of Gayness in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty”, in…. From the entry extradiegetic
• Then the smiling narrator filled me with doom: I was expected to pull my own rip cord.2009 March, Deanna Roy, “Forget the rules and make the leap”, in Writer, volume 122, number 3, page 15. From the entry doom
• Dorveille can involve the bodily exhaustion that overcomes the narrator at the outset of his text.2009, James J. Paxson, The Poetics of Personification, page 94. From the entry dorveille
• Fritz Dümpfelleu—that untrustworthiest of narrators, yet does he not perhaps hit the mark here?2001, Arno Schmidt, translated by John E. Woods, The School for Atheists: A Novella = Comedy in 6 Acts, Green Integer, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry untrustworthiest
• In this tape, a velvet-voiced narrator provides a stroke-by-stroke guide to massaging your partner.1987 February 8, Richard Zachs, “Candy is dandy (though maybe not liquor) - so for this Valentine's Day, video may be a whole lot more…. From the entry demonstrate
• John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless.1986 April 12, H. W. Seng, “The Chunks-of-Life Approach Yields Thin Fiction”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry transparency
• The film’s complexity arises from the narrators’ conflicting judgments, their summing-ups of Kane.1973, David Bordwell, “The Dual Cinematic Tradition in Citizen Kane”, in Stanley J. Solomon, editor, The Classic Cinema: Essays in…. From the entry summing-up
• What is happening in reality is that the sense of guilt is implied by the author and narrator.2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental…. From the entry superimpose
• Parker, the inner narrator, it smacks of sycophancy.2010, Arthur M. Axelrad, “Text and Commentary”, in Jane Austen’s Sanditon: A Village by the Sea, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, chapter 3, page 144. From the entry Sanditonian
• The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in The New York Times. From the entry ruminator
• A plurality of voices, those of the author, narrators and characters, interact in a dialogue creating a heteroglot, a multi-languaged text.2002, María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem, Reading the Feminine Voice in Latin American Women's Fiction, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry heteroglot
• Our conversation helps her to construct a link between refugeeship and femininity: an example of the research process facilitating narrators' transformation.2000, Ronit Lentin, Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah, page 110. From the entry refugeeship
• In picaresques, the protagonist usually acts as narrator to provide coherence and unity to the genre's inherent structural weakness—its episodic plot.1992, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, “The New England Frontier and the Picaresque in Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal”, in Kathryn…. From the entry picaresque
• "Did My Mama Like To Dance?" which tells the sour-sweet moment in which the narrator learns about her dead mother's life.1989 December 17, Terri L. Jewell, “The Power Of Black Women Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 13. From the entry sour-sweet
• One talking book narrator consistently used a lisp for gay characters, although no lisp was indicated or written into the texts.1980 April 12, Warren Blumenfeld, “Gay & Blind”, in Gay Community News, page 10. From the entry talking book
• The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love of children, should have got his wife with child.1950, The Manchester Guardian Weekly - Volume 63, page 171. From the entry genophilia
• Here, our apparently heterodiegetic narrator reveals himself to be homodiegetic: to be Tanner's sidekick BB Trane, previously referred to in the third person.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 185. From the entry homodiegetic
• Avery, the Dr Watsonish narrator, is a well-to-do ex-soldier who touchingly believes that English gentlemen always tell the truth and do the right thing.2015 April 23, Jake Kerridge, “The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter, review: 'subtle'”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 18 Apr…. From the entry Dr Watsonish
• Simply put, an unreliable narrator is one whose version of events runs counter to the story's true actions and to readers' interpretation of those events.2011, Judy Doenges, “The Truthless Narrator”, in Andrea Barrett, Peter Turchi, editors, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their…. From the entry unreliable narrator
• Adverbs too ('she remarked, tersely') seem to over-egg the pudding or else acquire undue weight in the mouth of a supposedly artless narrator.2010, Alan Bennett, “Introduction”, in The Complete Talking Heads, Picador, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry over-egg the pudding
• The identity of this superomniscient narrator is never explicitly revealed, but he performs as the voice of one of the masters “riding” Aisha.2010, Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom, Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry superomniscient
• Echoing this constellation, a version of Mcllvaine, the narrator of The Waterworks, reappears in City of God, where he is visited by "the Reverend Dr.2009, Michael Wutz, Enduring Words: Literary Narrative in a Changing Media Ecology. From the entry pre-dead
• Lovecraft must cat-and-mouse with us as well, interminably exploiting the hesitations and reluctances of his narrator to tell us what the basic horror is.2004, Fritz Leiber, Ben J. S. Szumskyj, S. T. Joshi, Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark, page 301. From the entry cat-and-mouse
• Narrator: The crowd goes absolutely bazonkers!2004, Brad Neely, Wizard People, Dear Reader. From the entry bazonkers
• But the differences go beyond this: as the narrator explained, kathak grew up in the royal courts while bharatanatyam emerged from the temples.2001 September 28, Kelly Kleiman, “Fight From the Inside”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry kathak
• Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.2000, Michael J. Meyer, Literature and Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry lamentability
• The unreliable narrator demonstrates how the spirit of the times colours the work of storytellers, and how they in turn help to shape that spirit.1999, Robert Fulford, “The Cracked Mirror of Modernity”, in The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (CBC Massey…. From the entry unreliable narrator
• In the midst of a catechetically structured recital of the ills to which life is subject, "Ithaca"'s narrator asks, Did Stephen participate in his dejection?1989, Morris Beja, Shari Benstock, Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry catechetically
• The Priest also places a moral barrier between himself and his tale by establishing himself as an "unreliable narrator" capable of deception and irony.1969 September, Charles A. Watkins, “Chaucer’s Sweete Preest”, in Earl R. Wasserman et al., editors, ELH [English Literary History]…. From the entry deception
• Rather, the narrator is projecting to a future in which they will tell the story of this choice as if it mattered, when really it made no difference.2026 May 26, David Epstein, “The Real Meaning of "The Road Not Taken". It's not about rugged individualism”, in Range Widely [Substack…. From the entry satisficing
• In relating how the brujx came to California, the narrator recounts that “when the first brujx immigrated to Los Angeles, they had only built a small church and graveyard.2025 February 17, Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera, Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature, Univ. Press of…. From the entry brujx
• A darkly toned short story collection from the Japanese underground writer about a series of spiky tongued, bad girl narrators whose lives are hilariously altered by supernatural occurrences.2024 March 6, Agnès Houghton-Boyle, “CAHYATI IN CONVERSATION: MEET THE TEAM BEHIND BALI'S BOLDEST PRRINTMAKERS”, in Fetch.London, archived…. From the entry blondster
• We get descriptions of character actions and we’re told about character motives as filtered through the third-person narrator, but we don’t actually get to read these characters’ thoughts.2022 October 10, Brian Collins, “Short Story Review: “Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fleu” by Tanith Lee”, in Science Fiction & Fantasy…. From the entry telly
• As fishwomen swam past and mutantlike children scuttled across the ceiling, there was no gentle narrator to chime in with the equivalent of “What is a hobbit?2022 February 14, Eowyn Ivey, “Marlon James’s Moon Witch Tells Her Side of a Haunting Story”, in The New York Times. From the entry mutantlike
• A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictional horsing around reflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel.2015 January 14, Catherine O'Flynn, “10:04 by Ben Lerner review”, in The Guardian. From the entry horse around

Meaning of narrator

1. noun One who narrates or tells stories.
2. noun The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
3. noun The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.

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How do you use narrator in a sentence?

Narrator is used as a noun. For example: “Morgan Freeman was the narrator of March of the Penguins.”

What is a short sentence with narrator?

“Narrator: The crowd goes absolutely bazonkers!”

What does narrator mean?

Narrator means one who narrates or tells stories.