Sentence examples for a progress narrative from inspiring English sources

Some tell the story of love as an eternal and unchanging essence; others, as a progress narrative over stifling social conventions.

In other words, the apologists situated colonialism in a progress narrative.

He argued that these lost loved ones are the evidence of a failed progress narrative; they mark "how far we've come," which is not enough distance at all.

According to academic Susan Stryker, a professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Arizona, "the persistent drumbeat of activism" has meant that "transgender issues were suddenly positioned as the 'next big thing' in a civil rights progress narrative".

In contrast, the collapse of communism inspired a minor revival of the traditional progress narrative.

The new exhibition has several advantages for educators, including a circular arrangement of the exhibition's hominid dioramas, which subverts the linear progress narrative interpreted by many visitors to the previous hall, and a display showing the step-by-step process of hominid model reconstruction by the AMNH's own Gary Sawyer, who built many of the models for display in the dioramas.

And so we don't really believe in the progress narrative, but we somehow still mouth it.

As a show deeply informed by its diverse depictions of blackness, Queen Sugar taps into the "progress narrative" historical zeitgeist of African Americans.

Though research has shown that the idea of time as linear is more framing than fact (born from Eurocentric visions of "the progress narrative" and how science was also "colonized" during colonization), people born within western civilization's cultural influence tend to look at the past as "regressive" and the future as "progressive".

So far, we have seen how the events of the 20th century provoked criticisms of the typical European progress narrative.

In other words, the paradigmatic progress narrative shows Europeans setting the standards and then the rest of the world catching up until everyone is a full participant in an enlightened order.