They also praised the story and said, "One of the differences between the original Four Swords and Adventures is a more persistent narrative".
What also animated the protests was a sense that Abrams was being held to a higher standard than Evans — part of a persistent media narrative that treated white candidates as bridge-builders and black candidates as focused only on the base.
For starters, we should define "New Atheism," which Bruenig calls "the contemporary phenomenon of aggressive disbelief coupled with a persistent persecution narrative".
For starters, we should define "New Atheism," which Bruening calls "the contemporary phenomenon of aggressive disbelief coupled with a persistent persecution narrative".
That may seem hard to believe given the dominant and persistent narrative of abundant US gas production, but the data is clear.
Unfortunately, the persistent narrative of black males as drug dealers, gangsters and pimps continues to mar what might be the second golden era of hip hop.
Branagh strikes a relentless narrative tempo.
But it has become a truism that in their modern, Internet-driven form, these persistent narratives spread far faster and run deeper than ever.
The persistent narratives that we keep our bits buttoned-up and locked-down, only allowed fresh air for dignified attempts at Jesus-sanctioned reproduction attempts, that kids shouldn't be having sex because they're irresponsible, that same-sex sex is for deviant weirdos, are the damnable propaganda that underlie some of the most destructive, woman-hating, gay-hating legislation in this nation.
But within those same pages of the Hebrew Bible there is also a persistent opposing counter-narrative that confronts that first narrative as being untrue and unjust, and that upholds questioning authority in the name of compassion as a virtue.
As you suggest, they strike mythic, archetypal chords, and cater to a persistent hunger for large-scale, accessible narratives of good and evil.
