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- adjective film Not
chronological ; proceeding through time in anonlinear fashion
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Examples
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"achronological" style which back then (and even today by some degree) increases the chances of a film being labelled cool amongst teenagers.
Box Office Prophets 2009
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I was originally responding to the summary dismissals of the film (and its story) that were based on the fragmentary evidence of the trailers, to the decision not to see the film because its story can be nothing but "vapid" and improbable -- again, based on the trailers, which are incomplete, achronological snippets of the full film.
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The baldness of Dreiser's dismissal of any kind of narrative that doesn't "go forward in a more or less direct line" should seem comical to us now, date-stamped as it is: the convention-thwarting achronological narrative has become a standard feature of film and television, has become conventional.
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The baldness of Dreiser's dismissal of any kind of narrative that doesn't "go forward in a more or less direct line" should seem comical to us now, date-stamped as it is: the convention-thwarting achronological narrative has become a standard feature of film and television, has become conventional.
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010
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Dreiser points to the passage where Ford's narrator, John Dowell, offers a purposeful explanation for the achronological arrangement of the book he is said to be setting down:
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The baldness of Dreiser's dismissal of any kind of narrative that doesn't "go forward in a more or less direct line" should seem comical to us now, date-stamped as it is: the convention-thwarting achronological narrative has become a standard feature of film and television, has become conventional.
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010
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Dreiser points to the passage where Ford's narrator, John Dowell, offers a purposeful explanation for the achronological arrangement of the book he is said to be setting down:
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010
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Dreiser points to the passage where Ford's narrator, John Dowell, offers a purposeful explanation for the achronological arrangement of the book he is said to be setting down:
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010
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Written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito, the series currently spans ten volumes, nearly all of which are told in an achronological fashion.
Light Novels: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya » Fanboy.com 2008
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* And, finally: wrote incoherent, achronological blog post.
Archive 2008-12-01 Susan Palwick 2008
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