The phrase "a verbal narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a story or account that is expressed through spoken words rather than written text.
Example: "During the meeting, she shared a verbal narrative of her experiences while traveling through Europe."
Alternatives: "an oral story" or "a spoken account".
It's a repetition of a narrative they had lived themselves, so when provoked and feeling traumatised they would be lashing out with a verbal narrative of violent rape and other sexual acts.
In one trial of 150 advanced cancer patients, 48percentt of the 80 patients who listened to a verbal narrative describing CPR wanted the treatment, 51percentt did not, and 1percentt were uncertain.
In these studies we found that the use of video images of a patient with advanced dementia compared with a verbal narrative of advanced dementia had a significant impact on subjects' preferences for end of life care.
Testing narrative skills in both languages would also allow teachers to monitor whether children are developing skills in organizing a verbal narrative, in one or both languages that they are learning.
25 After we obtained informed consent, all patients who met the eligibility criteria were randomised into one of two groups: listening to a verbal narrative describing advanced dementia (control group) or listening to the same verbal narrative followed by watching a two minute video depicting a patient with advanced dementia (intervention group).
The online version, with its images and commentary, presents better than any verbal narrative could the rich past and present of Columbia's Music Department.
Intervention Verbal narrative alone (n=106) or with a video decision support tool (n=94).
Participants randomised to the intervention group viewed the video decision support tool on a portable computer after listening to the same verbal narrative.
How can we use the verbal, narrative dimension of mythological scenes to get information about societies for which we do not have written sources?
That's the style: cliches (verbal, narrative and cinematic) are constantly undercut, metaphors are strained ("the silence in the room was thicker than an elephant kebab") and retro atmosphere is jolted by inappropriate modern idiom.
The ethics of the telling will naturally involve techniques that film shares with verbal narrative (e.g., prolepses) along with others that are unique to film (e.g., split screen, jump cut, dissolve).
