Sentence examples for a metanarrative from inspiring English sources

In reality, a metanarrative of Australian national politics for more than 30 years has been leadership tensions: Hawke and Keating Howardd and Costello; Kevin and me; Abbott and his undeclared contenders.

A distaste for cliché stopped Mr. Horowitz short of inserting a metanarrative structure to hold the listener's hand, and the audio format prevented him from structuring his story around physical action.

"There is a metanarrative to everything that's going on with the BBC, and that's time and money," said Steven Barnett, a professor of communications at the University of Westminster.

Liu's "Pattern Language I" is a critique of the post-World War II notion of housing, and it serves as a metanarrative of the inherently generic quality of Levittown and the countless suburban developments that followed it across the country, as well as the birth of sprawl mentality.

Although the Tree may provide a simplistic representation of some evolutionary relationships, it is important as a metanarrative to explore life's common descent.

We can trace across this story a metanarrative development in which the fledgling star Karloff struggles to break free of the conventions of the genre to which his stardom was owed.

They also exploit the typical melodramatic structure of excessive sentiment, musical cues for the development of the plot, and a moral metanarrative of local good versus a global evil.

Eventually, both the TVA and malaria control would become key elements in an influential metanarrative in which an American ideology of 'technological modernism' dominated international development in the post-World War II era, until modern environmentalism and other social movements undermined the assumptions and goals of this ideology.

Nor do they provide a negative "metanarrative" of universal historical decline.

According to Nietzsche, "will to truth" cannot be content with the metaphysical construction of a grand metanarrative, whether it be monotheistic religion or modern science, and growing self-consciousness, or "intellectualization" à la Weber, can lead only to a radical skepticism, value relativism, or, even worse, nihilism.

This is evident in the use of the exodus story as an essential metanarrative for liberation theologies, in which Egypt continues to be used as a symbol for oppression.