The phrase "contrary to the narrative" is a correct and usable construction in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that goes against the established or expected storyline or plot. Example: "The unexpected twist in the movie's plot was contrary to the narrative that had been set up in the first act."
It all left some to wonder if, contrary to the narrative Trump and his allies plan to weave, news organizations actually might have done more.
Contrary to the narrative advanced by the influential 1963 book "Beyond the Melting Pot," these Spanish-speaking groups did not resign themselves to their new fates.
Contrary to the narrative that all machine learning is completely a black box, talking to machine learning practitioners will reveal that some machine learning algorithms are generally considered to be interpretable (such as logistic regression and decision trees).
Judge Farlam said he did not agree that there was a toxic collusion between the police and the Lonmin mine, a finding that runs contrary to the narrative of the workers and the victims' families.
The reason, it turns out, is straightforward: contrary to the narrative at the center of his memoir, Schultz has spent most of his second stint at Starbucks aggressively expanding.
This may seem like a surprising place to start, but – contrary to the narrative of anti-immigration campaigners, and Conservative ministers – it is emigration not immigration that has driven recent changes in net migration, with immigration remaining stable since 2004.
Klopp himself insists that, contrary to the media narrative, it is not about the line-up.
Finally, contrary to the established narrative of large dairy producers, medium-sized dairy farms are more likely than large farms to participate in the MILC program.
Contrary to the defeatist narrative that many on the left will surely advance, this economic success is a direct result of the president's pro-growth policies.
Contrary to the publicized narrative of industrial-scale expansion, most oil palm expansion and associated deforestation is occurring outside large agro-industrial concessions.
Contrary to the emerging narrative, it shows that Generation Y's support for public spending has been relatively stable since their opinions were tracked starting in the late 1990s.
