As the certainty of her winning the nomination has faded, Clinton has become increasingly tetchy in the face of Sanders' narrative that she has been corrupted by Wall Street and corporate money.
Trump doesn't want or need that because it flies in the face of the narrative and the image that he's crafted for his campaign which is stuffed with the GOP's standard use of racially loaded code words and attack points.
For Ahmed Shafik and Mohamed Morsi represent the two faces of the narrative which Mubarak always used to maintain his power: stability or the Islamist nightmare.
This narrowing flies in the face of the standard narrative, almost universally accepted inside the media and political bubble, that Trump has had a disastrous time since he wrapped up the G.O.P. nomination, in early May.
"The biggest challenge I think going forward is for the maturer cities to be able to really define their narrative in the face of the quite compelling narratives that are being created elsewhere," Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London Organizing Committee, said in an interview this week.
Djebar's writing, marked by a regal unwillingness to compromise in the face of ethical, linguistic, and narrative complexities, has attracted devoted followers around the world".
With nudity, gay sex, Pakistani businessmen cheating on their wives and a drug smuggler disguised as a mullah with heroin sewn into his fake beard, the film wasn't just a wake-up call to white Britain; it also flew in the face of the traditional immigrant narrative.
He also spent a considerable amount of time, for reasons that make more sense in the context of narrative, with his face under the arse-end of a goat.
Dostum's narrative flew in the face of the historically revisionist story writtenby Matthew Rosenberg in The New York Times.
Perhaps more important, these close-ups create a sense of narrative expectation that the face will soon be attached to a name, actions, emotions and the inevitable story.
