These perceptual opportunities constitute "Narrative Potential," the chance to fill the space with information that will kickstart our brains' native storytelling impulses.
And the final split decision -- Mr. Gore's plurality, Mr. Bush's electoral lead -- constitutes narrative genius.
Mixed methodology appears to hold considerable promise for unpacking both the occurrence and prevalence of cognitive structures represented by verbal encoding that constitute patients' narratives.
Or: "Followed by Love, Sweetie, Butt," meaning that the next course was an order of a pasta called love letters, sweetbreads, and halibut, and the pasta chef would answer back, "Love," and Dom, the sauté chef, would answer, "Sweetie, Butt" — a sequence of words that, if listened to with any detachment, seemed to constitute a narrative in their own right.
It is to this that the philosopher Paul Ricoeur points when he speaks of "life as an activity and a passion in search of a narrative". Indeed, for Ricoeur, a life is "the field of a constructive activity, by which we attempt to discover... the narrative identity which constitutes us". Narrative medicine arises from the awareness of this relation between narrativity and identity.
Pressed into an ethically null category, they were compelled to live lives of social death stripped of defining webs of ennobling meaning constituted by narratives of previous histories, renewing presents, and imagined and anticipated futures of flourishing, cross-generational continuation.
The author explores the ways in which the narratives constitute a distinctive testimonial and memorial tradition, a claim supported by close readings and theoretical analysis that demonstrates how these narratives question hegemonic cultural discourses, empower reader-viewers as empathic witnesses, and provide communal sites for mourning, resisting, and remembering.
In general, narratives constitute the most comprehensive and elaborate part of electronic patient records.
In an ethnographic approach the presented narratives constitute an interpretation of the actions and interactions and the intention is to transform the observations and interviews into a comprehensive text [ 19].
Naipaul's themes are fate, dissolution, bad luck; but he is also concerned with, beyond the story, the music – that is, a span of time, constituting a narrative or a life, comprising pauses in which the sword falls repeatedly, and in which nothing much is achieved.
Apart from such obvious parallels in content, most of the individual episodes constituting these narrative cycles are also concluded by a refrain, adding further symmetry to the entire composition.
