As the psalm unfolds, with four consecutive narratives of struggle, we hear what Biblical scholar James May calls "a catalog of adversity" transformed into the powerful liturgy of testimony.
The most obvious answer would seem to be for the networks to act more like cable: take fewer breaks, run serialized shows in consecutive episodes, and finish narrative story lines in 10 to 13 episodes instead of 22.
As Ivo fills his time by playing the A–Z game suggested by his nurse Sheila – working his way through the alphabet, telling stories about body parts beginning with each consecutive letter – the larger narrative of his life, its losses and loves, begins to emerge.
Besides, the mini-scenarios could preferably serve as narratives for the consecutive main scenario.
He is acutely aware his record of five consecutive cup final defeats will shape the narrative of the next one but at least he has the track record to convince there will be a next one.
Her narrative is as much concurrent as consecutive, cut into strips and mixed up for a reader to assemble.
Everything can be seen as a part of a given perceptual framework, just as ferocious hurricanes were woven into the global warming narrative after Katrina — and conveniently left out after two consecutive years of almost no hurricanes.
With a non-linear narrative that restlessly resets itself, this disorientating film shuffles between two consecutive summers and the alternating pitch-black depressive episodes (the type where, for example, one might sleep with a knife under their pillow) of our passive-aggressive, antagonistic BFFs.
Properly speaking, a history is an evolving narrative concerning a person, a place, or an idea that has left consecutive traces over time (a syntactical nicety ignored by titles that promise "histories" of dust or the smile).
