From that point on, the campaign of a first lady against two dizzyingly different men -- the famous, irascible mayor of the nation's most chaotic city and a little-known congressman from a tidy corner of Long Island -- defied all the normal narrative rules of a political campaign.
The third paragraph of the "story" illustrates a very familiar but disturbing tendency in U.S. and Western news reporting on Israeli responses to attacks from terrorists harbored (or in the case of the Palestinians and the Lebanese, democratically elected) in neighboring lands, to break with the normal narrative structure of a story.
"In a normal commercial narrative film, I'm playing a character in order to support the imaginary world of that film.
That he is able to do so, daringly abolishing normal narrative rules, is proof of a precocious imagination and technical facility.
Our data demonstrate the novel finding of a strong functional connection between left and right anterolateral STCs during normal narrative speech comprehension.
In the present study, we demonstrated a significant functional connection between left anterior IFG and anterolateral STC during normal narrative speech comprehension.
"That's not the normal narrative".
Recounting such legends in the measured and deliberate style of Navajo storytelling meant lingering on visual symbols and slowing up the normal narrative pace of television.
Not that you'll hear much of it on Top Forty radio; the collection is a study of the power of atmospherics, with songs that have more textural appeal than normal narrative drive.
Richard Reynolds states that without any supervillains in the story, the superheroes of Watchmen are forced to confront "more intangible social and moral concerns", adding that this removes the superhero concept from the normal narrative expectations of the genre.
