The phrase "complementary narrative" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a secondary or supporting story or perspective that enhances or adds depth to the main narrative. Example: In the novel "Wuthering Heights," Emily Bronte uses a complementary narrative to shed light on the tumultuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, providing a deeper understanding of their motivations and actions.
(Boswell's complementary narrative of their journey, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with its rich store of Johnson's conversation, was published only in 1785, the year after Johnson's death).
A complementary narrative was unfolding, as both Obama and Clinton spoke more and more to and about the working class Americans who had once been the constituency of the now-forgotten John Edwards of North Carolina.
All of the information collected from this process was presented in tabular form, and a complementary narrative text was produced to highlight the main findings.
In addition to these standardized variables, results from molecular analysis of pathogens and complementary narrative information, such as anecdotal evidence, can also be included and categorized as "other information".
With great dexterity McQueen and Morgan develop two parallel, seemingly complementary narratives, one involving Sissy, the other Marianne (Nicole Beharie), a secretary at Brandon's office.
The media rather lazily glommed onto these complementary narratives, and here we are today.
From the late sixties to the late seventies, duets organized around complementary male and female narratives were all over mainstream pop: Kiki Dee and Elton John, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, Captain and Tennille, Billy Preston and Syreeta, Barry Gibb and Barbra Streisand, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond.
Radunsky, however, designed his own book, and while the type is not as inextricably woven through the pictures as it is in Taback's, the bold, black sans-serif Futura typeface that he selected for the narrative is perfectly complementary with the painterly, comical illustrations.
ESPN has its own scorekeeping app with iScore, so GameChanger hopes to parlay the media giant by offering a more robust suite of realtime statistics, by really attacking the amateur sports audience, especially between the ages of 10 to 18, and by forging partnerships with businesses with complementary audiences or services, like Narrative Science.
Narratives tended to be complementary of the victim and the perpetrator.
She sees the narrative and graphic elements as complementary: the action and spatial alignment lead the viewer's eye from left to right so as to emphasize the relationship between the action and its explosive consequence.
