Sentence examples for a given narrative from inspiring English sources

The content of a given narrative is an indication both of its form miracle story, controversy, or conversion story, for example—and of the narrative's use within the life of the community.

His thinking, he said, was that "sexual violence, including rape and domestic abuse, should also feature in my work where necessary or appropriate to a given narrative, the alternative being to imply that these things did not exist, or weren't happening.

The opening montage of Crystal barging into the best movies of the year (getting kissed by George Clooney, racing with a red quiff through Tintin's world) was astonishing, as such digital triumphs always are, but I had the kind of uneasiness that I always experience along with astonishment — a sense that no set of images, no matter how firmly embedded in a given narrative, is inviolable anymore.

His success, he says, comes down not to knowledge but his capacity for "active, open-minded thinking": applying the scientific method to look rigorously at data, rather than seeking to impose a given narrative on a situation.

Even within a given narrative, the elements of that particular story are not told in chronological order.

Thus, chronotope refers not merely to the formal features of a given narrative; of greater interest is the way in which chronotope defines a field of possibilities available to the narrator (Morson, 1994).

There was no given narrative.

I was able to write a song that gave narrative to things, but I didn't invent the sentiment or own the slogan.

Mr. Ferreri isn't just nodding at Marcuse: the entire film seems to be an attempt to give narrative shape to his ideas about domination and social control in advanced industrial societies.

At a given point in the narrative, you reach the song Walking in the Air.

The patients could accurately describe a given scene, generate a relevant narrative [ 13], and appropriately characterize the context.