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narration

[na-ray-shuhn] / næˈreɪ ʃən /


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Everything seemed against it, from the heavy narration to the creature’s dark insides and the lead’s isolated gloom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

In 2023, he partnered with Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art to provide guided audio narration for “The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art”.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“What’s a good story if things end up the way they began?” she ponders over the narration in the film’s opening sequence, itself a nod to how the first movie begins.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Invitation” is an achievement in dance for cinema, freed from the spatial and temporal limits of live performance, weaving stories without dialogue, lyrics, or narration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The narration is one of the prime areas of a speech in which you are able to spin, and framing the terms of the debate is half the battle won.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

The chapters alternate between Aubrey’s and Lindsey’s narrations and their voices are so similar that it is easy to mix them up; also, the androgynous character names raise the possibility of gender confusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

“But the ill-fated ‘Capeman’ strung together musicalized narrations that described entire scenes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023

That year she was also contacted by an entrepreneur who was working on a start-up called Audm, which offered audio narrations of long-form magazine articles.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2022

Better yet, fast forward to any of Stevenson’s narrations of Virginia Woolf.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

He loves Joan Rivers and never misses her annual red-carpet narrations leading up to the Academy Awards telecasts.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove


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