Sentence examples for failure of narrative from inspiring English sources

At first this ending seems a failure of narrative – the inability of a monologuist to report his own death.

He goes on too long: the three-part story, spread over nearly two and a half hours, represents a triumph of sympathetic imagination and a failure of narrative economy.

The space to do so has been opened by the failure of the "official narrative" to reflect the post-crisis changes in people's experiences and expectations.

Almost a decade in the making, Fitzgerald's elegiac romance is a narrative of failure: of ambition unrealised, relationships dishonoured, talent spent.

It's been mooted that part of Labour's failure during the election campaign was a lack of narrative and an inability to tell real-life, resonant stories.

He, like lots of other soixante-huitards, was disappointed by the failure of one of those grand narratives, Marxism, to deliver paradise.

The art journalist Tetsuya Ozaki, writing in the catalogue for "Bye Bye Kitty!!!," a show of new Japanese art, at the Japan Society, dubs that country's youth of today the "floating generation," who are reacting against "the collapse of the grand narrative and the failure of Japanese society to make its people happy".

Although its title makes it sound like a political snuff film, it spends most of its time recapitulating a well-known narrative about the failure of New Labour and Blair's shady business dealings, using the most staid documentary techniques.

This is ironic given the lack of progress, but perhaps belies the underlying organisational narratives and a failure of achieving organisational cultural competence.

A source close to the Khawalid brothers dismissed the aforementioned narrative and blamed the failure of talks on the opposition rejection of the CP deal.

If it resulted in failure, the entire narrative of Bharara's tenure would change.