An exemplary bad-beat narrative sounds like this: "I went all-in on the flop with aces, the board was AKQ rainbow, got called by 57 suited who also called my huge raise preflop, and lost to runner runner flush".
The "tales" of the subtitle may be a nervous publisher's attempt to make the contents sound more beguiling to readers who might be thought to be deterred by "essays" or "studies", but fortunately the term does not in this case signal colourful biographical chat or off-beat narratives.
Both the "priorities" and "strengthen America's security" narratives beat the McCain narrative by about 8 points..
Charyn's prose reminds me of stride piano playing: a steady beat of narrative plus bursts of imagery and association.
The best chance for climate change to beat enemy narratives is to refuse to play this partisan game at all.
As a young man freshly ejected from Harvard for drunken behavior, Gaddis traveled around America and the world, reporting back in great detail to his mother; these long freewheeling Beat-like narrative riffs were the testing grounds for both Gaddis's style and his ontology.
While even her best work hinges on a measure of artifice, not one narrative beat or expression of feeling feels genuine in this foam-headed tale of a grief-stricken Danish cop (Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) kidnapping a junkie couple's baby.
Most of the published cancer memoirs focus on upbeat, inspiring, you-can-beat-it narratives.
I had done the standard mix of beat stories and narrative pieces.
Ostensibly, it was a prophetic vision of the eighth round, and no poem, before or after, could beat it for narrative drive, scansion, and wit.
If you have less animated taste in lads-on-campus comedy, you may get a guffaw or two watching Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as overgrown Google interns in The Internship (Fox, 12), an elaborate feat of brand placement that uncannily mirrors every narrative beat of Monsters University and barely gets by on its stars' sprightly sparring.
