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Meanings of framing device in inglês

russo
обрамление
português
narrativa moldura
catalão
història marc
espanhol
narracion enmarcada

Story in a nested narration that brackets one or more embedded stories.

Related terms
narrativa moldura
Usage of framing device in inglês
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Possibly the Powell sequences might have worked better as a framing device.
Reuters
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That framing device initially baffled some of the show's cast, including Malek.
The Guardian
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This is good, gray-area stuff that deserves a better framing device.
Reuters
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It's the same shameless framing device that helped make Titanicsimultaneously nauseating and lachrymose.
The Irish Times
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This framing device is forced, sentimental and, ultimately, becomes seeped in New Age baloney.
The Irish Times
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Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history.
The Guardian
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Leila, like the Scheherazade, is the framing device of this book: a woman in control of her own narrative.
Independent.ie
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It adopts a fictional framing device wherein Pete Postlethwaite is the last man standing on devastated Planet Earth in 2055.
The Irish Times
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An awkward framing device, in which Anne's story is related years later by the youngest family members, only increases the ambiguity.
Reuters
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But the framing device of Sonia's epic search for her sister, and a fluffy love story, let down his authentic-styled drama.
The Guardian
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And hey, I never wanted to write a story about AIDS or being gay, anyhow-thosethings were only the framing device.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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Andresevic inserts numerous shots of random couples necking or embracing as a framing device, as well as utilizing cutesy chapter headings.
Reuters
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She has used the same framing device as in Julius Caesar: a prison in which women are putting on a Shakespeare production.
The Guardian
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Lastly, but quite importantly, the modern-day framing device -Tonto is relating these events from middle age -never fully earns its keep.
The Guardian
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I understand that Alexandra's part is a late addition to the script as she'll feature in a framing device that bookends the film.
The Guardian
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I could, frankly, have even done without the framing device of Gill and her family and spent another hundred pages in Rosamond's company.
The Guardian