The phrase "a basic narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a simple or fundamental story or account of events.
Example: "In the meeting, we discussed a basic narrative of the project's development to ensure everyone was on the same page."
Alternatives: "a simple story" or "a fundamental account".
The charging papers, which in most cases provide a basic narrative for the alleged crime, list the counts against the defendant but little additional information about the plot.
The story, written by Craig Storper, is simple and spare: a basic narrative of righteous vengeance, of necessary killin' -- without remorse and without the final g.
If this finding is accurate, it suggests a basic narrative for the campaign — that most of the late deciders were on the pro-independence side, but that there weren't enough of them to change the result.
It is this combination of a basic narrative type with a freedom of treatment within traditional limits that makes it possible to identify hundreds of versions of the same tale or song as they appear over long stretches of time and space.
The policy review, it is said, offered Miliband a basic narrative about "national renewal" and people's sense of powerlessness, about which he was initially enthusiastic – before it was dropped in favour of the cost-of-living agenda, and a more tactical, day-to-day approach.
Kindly, he explains it: "What is really happening is (insert diagnosis) and what the government/Greece/EU/IMF/banks (take your pick) should do is (insert therapy)." Our APEs don't agree on everything, yet under their rhetoric runs a basic narrative, often unstated.
"Traditional media as a whole operates in terms of a really basic narrative, often a binary," Lenn told HuffPost.
It also occurs in the final sequence of a slim, 64-minute movie with a brutally basic narrative arc: elephant born with big ears; elephant ridiculed; elephant learns to fly; the end.
The authors, who also wrote a remarkable book about the artist Chuck Close, do use Gehry's life for a kind of basic narrative structure.
The adult Russ works as "an image consultant" for an assortment of morally repellent businessmen and politicians and one lovable African-American athlete (Chi McBride; cf. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Jerry Maguire," a movie whose basic narrative arc is shared by "The Kid").
It states in a few lines the basic narrative of Jesus's life, is the statement of faith in one God and is said daily by Christians across the globe.
