Sentence examples for generic narrative from inspiring English sources

The missions in the vampire storyline are more interesting than the rather generic narrative tied to the Dawnguard faction.

Loaded with special effects, big bangs and generic narrative beats, these movies nonetheless sometimes take you where you've never been before.

The harsh specifics of his life and actions have gradually vanished, to be replaced by a rather generic narrative of a heroic figure defying abusive institutions and faceless enemies.

The new secondary art writer that offers such contextualization and generic narrative in the journalistic mode need not be held in high academic esteem -- in fact this is often a hindrance.

The historical narrative should consist only of true statements (that is, those most consonant with the appropriate evidence), but in making them into a narrative the historian draws on the same sorts of plots and metaphors that are common to generic narratives.

However, these results show that even a generic, narrative-based paper leaflet mailed to participants along with standard material has the potential to influence beliefs about CRC screening that can act as barriers or motivators to uptake, and in so doing increase intention to be screened.

The film's mysteriously shadowy villain may pique your curiosity or bore you with generic familiarity; the narrative hook can hardly compete with the literal hook on a rusted meat gantry that's strung through the tendon of a teenage girl.

Eurogamers Dan Whitehead, The Verge's Arthur Gies, and Giant Bomb's Patrick Klepek criticized the end of the game for its generic missions, "late narrative missteps", and abrupt ending.

The average movie protagonist these days can't be burdened with too many psychological traits in order to facilitate this videogame-like proxy experience; the likes of old Star Wars and Indiana Jones look like The Deerhunter in comparison with the generic personal-journey narratives that have taken over.

So the lack of self-care in far too much of the Scottish population - mostly in Glasgow, but clearly throughout the rest of the country as well - has to be tied to the continuing growth of a much bigger "post-materialist" narrative, becoming generic throughout the developed world, about the purposefulness of life in general.

Likewise, contemporary populist leaders legitimate their power thanks to anything-but-democratic tools, namely the rhetorical empty narrative of general (or better generic) elections celebrated nationwide.