Journalists attending a long trial together develop a special camaraderie born of a shared good mood: their stories are writing themselves; they have only to pluck the low-hanging fruit of the attorneys' dire narratives.
The actual football on display might sway from quite average to absolutely dire, yet the stories and narratives being spun by the show are based on tragedy and triumph, glory and pathos – all that which makes humankind's greatest tales so captivating.
In either case, the narrative is loaded with dire predictions of "the dark flood" approaching.
"Tango" is a promising but uneven book in dire need of an introduction, a narrative structure and an editor.
The corkscrew of a narrative follows Donnie through dire events that aggravate his anguish; he causes a scene almost every time he interacts with others.
There is a dire need to challenge the current mainstream narrative – a worldview based on 20th century geopolitical distortions wholly unsuited to the 21st century.
Instead, according to Dozier, climate-conscious conservatives are trying to "change the narrative from one of a dire emergency to an opportunity for solving a challenge".
Long-form narrative nonfiction might be in dire straits financially, but it's become the default prose genre of our time, and not just in magazine articles and books.
