Sentence examples for acceptable narrative from inspiring English sources

But I'm not knocking Wells's commercial reshaping of the book, which was probably necessary if Mayes's immersion in antiquities and curious risotto recipes was ever going to be turned into an acceptable narrative.

The mystery Primark labels are a far more acceptable narrative than trade unionism because they fit the tedious stereotype of Asian women – helpless, passive and in need of saving by western people.

It's become easy to dismiss Latham, and on cue, his statement that "the best way of minimising domestic violence is to minimise poverty" was was rightly howled down as simplistic, but also because it doesn't fit the acceptable narrative around this crime.

This study shows that we are helping make mental health ― and the pursuit of mental health ― an acceptable narrative in society," said Dr. Phil, who collaborated with his son, Jay McGraw, to develop a revolutionary app called Doctor on Demand, which delivers medical and psychiatric care nationwide.

Rather than truly breaking silences, acceptable narratives of coping emerged, each tied up with a pretty pink bow.

Veterans, many of whom have residual affiliations with they branch of service, are therefore required (explicitly or implicitly) to fit themselves into the narrow range of acceptable narratives.

A large part of this effort is the creation of a set of acceptable "narratives" about trajectory and experience of military service that are consistent with the goal of recruiting soldiers on the campus.

This variety is inevitable in the absence of an acceptable master narrative, which would allow stories to be fitted together so as to make them episodes in one overarching narrative.

She quotes Oscar Wilde – "The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it" – and, she adds, "He really was the person in a position to say that – he knew that history had to be remade, because only certain narratives deliver themselves as acceptable, dominant narratives".

Murray, one of whose children is autistic, may also be commenting on how we build "acceptable" emotional narratives; here the cosmic heightens our sense of the contingency of our habits and cultures.

While Marohasy's central claim – that BoM is doctoring figures to make them more acceptable to a narrative of warming - remains entirely untested in the scientific literature, the bureau's methods used to compile ACORN-SAT have been peer reviewed.