canevas

I just wanted to tell how impressed I was, not only by the complexity of the narative canevas (that is quite unique in the fantasy genre) but mostly by the stylistic qualities of the books.

Can't Shut Me Up grrm 2010

The same can be said about the fantasy genre, with its plethora of orcs and dragons; or, for that matter, the police/noir genre, with all its murders and detectives who are very often molded on the same canevas.

Is James Cameron’s Avatar Actually an Uncredited Rewrite of a 1957 Poul Anderson Story? | /Film 2009

Les élèves avaient comme point de départ un “canevas” qui plantait le décor leur donnant le contexte de leur histoire et leur donnait des instructions assez précises pour guider leur texte.

2004 September — Climb to the Stars 2004

Les élèves avaient comme point de départ un “canevas” qui plantait le décor leur donnant le contexte de leur histoire et leur donnait des instructions assez précises pour guider leur texte.

“Alors ils leur font la guerre” — Climb to the Stars 2004

They would make their triumphal entry into the town at noon, and setting up their stage in the old market, they would give their first performance that same Saturday night, in a new canevas -- or scenario -- of M. Binet's own, which should set the rustics gaping.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

Of the merits of the canevas itself he had no doubt.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

Whether it was to continue to do so would depend upon the manner in which the canevas over which he had laboured to the glory of Binet was interpreted by the company.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

There was a verve, a grip about this story; and, what was more, those of them who knew their Moliere realized that far from approaching the original more closely, this canevas had drawn farther away from it.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

After dinner M. Binet read to the assembled company the amended and amplified canevas of "The Heartless Father," which, acting upon the advice of M. Parvissimus, he had been at great pains to prepare.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

The company's reception of the canevas now confirmed him, if we except Polichinelle, who, annoyed at having lost half his part in the alterations, declared the new scenario fatuous.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912