Sentence examples for appealing narrative from inspiring English sources

Collectively, they offered an appealing narrative: the city had been liberated from within, not just by NATO's relentless bombing campaign.

Conservative leaders stoked these feelings and gave them political force partly through grass-roots organization, but also by popularizing an appealing narrative.

Combining memoir, criticism and biography in a meandering but appealing narrative, Miller describes her response to C. S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia".

He does, however, keep the movie moving, palpably, with a racing camera that brings you into the choreographed action and lets you luxuriate in the appealing narrative that evil always meets its heroic opposition.

And it's so powerful because it has built, day after day, year upon year, on an emotionally appealing narrative of the plucky freedom-loving island that became a mighty empire.

Now, as he runs for re-election, President Obama has latched on to a new foreign policy book, which offers a more appealing narrative for a leader facing fresh charges — this time from Mitt Romney and the other Republican candidates — that he is leading the United States into its twilight of global influence.

His speechwriters, as usual, were more than adept at crafting a broad narrative, appealing to American traditionalist sensibilities by highlighting the words and deeds of our founding fathers, and employing the campaign-winning rhetoric of unity and shared American values.

The youths' message of growing up in this country without legal papers while striving for education and betterment is an appealing American narrative, which they use to maximum political effect.

Perhaps that's enough, and perhaps too much navel gazing would detract from the cheerful lack of self-pity that makes the narrative so appealing.

Rod and Balders, see, have written (or co-written) proper books, with nice narrative devices, appealing authorial voices, and a quality that our modern celeb-world tends to ignore: lightness of touch.

That narrative is appealing because it allows us to abdicate our collective responsibility for a society – and an underlying set of public policies – that accepts and even ensures that a portion of our society will live on the streets, that some of us will be addicted to drugs, and that some of us will just have to deal with grinding poverty – and the traumas that often follow from it.