Sentence examples for a factual narrative from inspiring English sources

The duty of a historian is much the same, with the added responsibility of assembling a factual narrative.

While such crumbs can be the very foundation of a factual narrative, in the hands of a journo-turned-novelist they can be merely white noise.

Although Mr. Brahimi stuck basically to a factual narrative of the situation, there was an undercurrent of frustration in the way he described it, diplomats said.

The hows and whys are well documented, regardless of whether both sides of the fence can agree on a factual narrative for how it came about.

Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call 'narrative nonfiction': writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways".

There are some deliciously scary moments (not recommended for children under 10), a thread of factual narrative, and lots of dreadful puns to entertain those who like their history horrible.

The former director of the Bay Area's Contra Costa Crisis Center, which he led for 15 years, Bateson proceeds entirely from a position of advocacy, with a factual, levelheaded narrative meant to clearly and directly engage the questions that surround a highly emotional subject.

The Thousand-Petalled Lotus was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement: "Non-fiction it may be, but he makes his points with all the finesse and resonance of a novelist... his deft prose should invite comparison with EM Forster; for within the limits of his factual narrative he gives us an invaluable perspective on that 'passage' by which we reach a traditional culture".

During the course of transmission, the factual narrative elements that surrounded each saying or event were stripped away, leaving only a central unit, which was applied to various situations by the addition of new introductions and conclusions.

Again and again, behind Conradi's bald, flat, studiously factual narrative, Murdoch fans will recognize the stuff of plots to come.

Besson states that in order to achieve this he stepped away from the factual narrative of the 15th century, instead trying to get behind the "exterior envelope" and into both the emotional effect and affect of Joan.