Sentence examples for a standard narrative from inspiring English sources

For Mr. Scribner, the tale proved hypnotic, but would not work as a standard narrative.

Through well-orchestrated media campaigns and lobbying efforts, a standard narrative of denial had been firmly entrenched as common knowledge.

In stories of war, there is supposed to be an order to things, a standard narrative with stock characters.

Some readers visit them every day and hence end up following a standard narrative chronology, but others arrive mid-story.

With Your Wings at first reads like a standard narrative of a veteran's return, a plot used by everyone from Homer to Ernest Hemingway.

A standard narrative has it that the Iraq war opened up a chessboard for the United States and Iran to tussle for power.

With regard to the development of the concept of species before Darwin, Wilkins rightly notes that there is an accepted, standard narrative of this history, constructed, as he deftly shows, by biologists during the New Synthesis (around 1958, in fact; p. xi).

Consulted by and employing source material from historians including Eric Foner, David Blight, and Victoria Bynum, Free State of Jones presents a wartime regional counternarrrative that becomes a postwar national standard narrative.

But it does suggest that the doctrine should be assessed using arguments more probing than a retelling of the standard narrative of the Illinois Central case.

No longer interested in telling a story, they replaced standard narrative techniques with feathery, interrupted brush strokes that best described an angle of interest or a fleeting scene of daily life.

Each artist disrupts the standard narrative of a mask as a means of liberation or escape, instead questioning what additional factors contributed to this mythology as the conventional understanding of disguise.