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narration

[na-rey-shuhn] / næˈreɪ ʃən /


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“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

Aviv’s journalistic method leans on the idea of unreliable narration.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Viola Davis provides mellifluous narration; giving voice to Du Bois in the reading of his letters and literature are the rapper-activist Common and the actors Jeffrey Wright and Courtney B. Vance.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

The landmark series Sir David works on often take three or four years to complete, with his involvement stretching far beyond narration.

From BBC May 8, 2026

In the narration, you would establish that Mr. Bear was a longtime resident of Jellystone, and that he had a history of picnic-basket-related offenses.

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

Hill and Bonsib offered dueling narrations to the jury.

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2022

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

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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