Sentence examples for explanatory stories from inspiring English sources

Dennis was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for a series of explanatory stories about the global financial crisis.

Gould and Lewontin refer to Voltaire's Dr. Pangloss of Candide, whose philosophy that "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds" leads to numerous just-so explanatory stories, such as "the nose has been formed to bear spectacles – thus we have spectacles" (Voltaire 2010, p. 2).

This second explanatory story of segregation suggests that government and business implemented policies that separated blacks and whites.

One explanatory story, frequently told by my students early in the semester, is that people "like to live with their own kind".

Appropriately enough for a work introduced in Provence, the bleak, unforgiving scenario of Written on Skin comes from a 13th-century razo, the explanatory story behind a troubadour's song.

It is not obvious, though, why a shared language and dictionaries won't suffice to get empirical science off the ground; it is not that empirical science needs conceptual analysis to tell his explanatory story, it's rather that after the fact the philosopher may be able to offer some greater reflective clarity about the concepts invoked in the explanatory story.

Plausible: function, location/structure, interaction type, biological process, and cellular component suggest an explanatory story.

It is, in fact, from reexamination of a well-accepted idea in another context that an explanatory story in the sciences can begin to fall apart.

Another point mentioned by the same author is that it would be very helpful if the tool could present an interaction type: 'Interaction type was crucial for scientists' judgments about whether results might help construct a plausible explanatory story.' This is a wish that has also been expressed by the curators in the experiment described in this article.

What started as a mass shooting on the fringes of The Times' coverage area developed seamlessly into a string of authoritative stories, explanatory graphics and compelling photos of mayhem and its aftermath.    .

Sherwood's efforts to make religion more palatable through children's fiction were not always regarded favorably by the entire evangelical community; The Evangelical Magazine harshly reviewed her Stories Explanatory of the Church Catechism (1817), complaining that it was overly reliant on exciting fictional tales to convey its religious message.