Sentence examples for founding narrative from inspiring English sources

Stegner's fiction stalked the slow disintegration of the family as closely as previous potboilers tracked cattle; and he transformed his father's subsequent rambles bootlegging the family from the dry northern plains to drier Mormon counties into a founding narrative stronger than any ultra-violent "revisionist" Western.

Smith's subject matter – the Civil Rights struggle – also returns jazz to what might be called its founding narrative: the cultural emancipation of black people in the United States.

The horror of the Holocaust serves as the founding narrative legitimizing European integration, and it's the key motivation for hate-speech laws on the continent.

It will be interesting to see how the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deal with the apparent coming to light of facts to cast doubt on the validity of its founding narrative.

Originally a Zulu term meaning unity, Ubuntu closely mirrors our country's powerful founding narrative: E Pluribus Unum, "out of many, one".

The meager impact of the liberty movement looks even weaker when one considers that the USA is (arguably) the most libertarian country on the planet and (less arguably) the country with the most libertarian founding narrative.

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is one of the founding narratives of English literature.

Of all the patients of Sigmund Freud whose muddled tales of woe became the founding narratives of psychoanalysis, Dora is the most upsetting.

He always writes about real events because he is interested in the version of history that sits just beneath the ostensibly "true" one; the alternative founding narratives built from myth and memory.

For instance, Iraqi Jews are said to be descended from those exiled to Babylon after the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B.C. Members of the Bene Israel community of Bombay say they are the children of Jews who fled the persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanus, who repressed the Maccabean revolt, around 150 B.C. Most of those founding narratives do not have strong historical support.

I realized that the three founding narratives of the national idea of Israeliness were over: the mass immigration to the land, aliyah; the security of the land; and the settling of the land.