The phrase "a core narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the central story or theme that is fundamental to a particular context, such as a book, film, or organizational mission.
Example: "The core narrative of the campaign focuses on the importance of community engagement and sustainability."
Alternatives: "a central story" or "a fundamental narrative".
Apart from anything else, it invites voters to respond: "about time, too".Finding and sticking to a core narrative would be easier if the party was still under the thumb of its famous control freaks.
They echo concerns voiced by Michael Gove, the education secretary, and historians Niall Ferguson and Simon Schama, who advocate a facts-based approach to a core narrative of British history as a means of stopping the rot.
Sometimes, it comes from political strategists, who create a core narrative that lionizes their candidate or, more often, demonizes the other one.
All stories should have a clear structure, a beginning, middle and an end, a core narrative, reliable sources and a goal or message.
It strains itself to present educational information while being less informative than it thinks, while it delivers a core narrative that sacrifices audience engagement for an otherwise welcome objectivity.
With Pillars of Eternity, a workable definition is completing the core narrative in a single-player campaign and receiving an achievement.
Pillars of Eternity is built around a vast and amazing core narrative, complete with fascinating side-quests.
Now we discover that the painter Caravaggio and the poet Francisco de Quevedo fought a duel under the guise of a game of tennis, an encounter that provides the core narrative of the Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue's new novel, brilliantly translated by Natasha Wimmer.
With the breakup of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the creation of a Czechoslovak Republic, these missions then fused with a parochial Slovak nationalist agenda, a complex process that is the core narrative of the book.
"The core narrative that describes a barbarous, calculated, and sustained corruption of both our national values and our most fundamental moral principles is simple," writes Kevin Drum of Mother Jones.
Palestinians who have presented Jewish state recognition as an existential threat to their own core narrative and identity will find it exceedingly hard to offer this recognition, as a feature of final status negotiations.
