Sentence examples for imposing narratives from inspiring English sources

The observers immediately enter into a competition, imposing narratives upon the two women.

By imposing narrative patterns on the seemingly infinite variety of human activity, they privilege plot over character.

Later, what he learned about the close loyalties of elephant families sustained him through his troubles.Virginia Morrell, whose biography of the Leakey family, "Ancestral Passions", came out in 1995, has refashioned Mr Leakey's usually workaday prose into a fine and imposing narrative of a heroic life in a continent all too short of heroes, black or white.

The outside world has noticed and those externally imposed narratives of Africa are shifting.

Despite human beings' taste for rational patterns of cause and effect, and their eagerness to impose narratives on the world, he observed, it's impossible to calculate the risks of Black Swan events or predict their occurrence.

We impose narrative on everything in order to understand it.

Cleverly manipulating our need to impose narrative on events, she creates a compelling novel that ably dodges the conventions she's sending up.

The graphics are often cinematic, but it's difficult for a spectator to have any sense of the competition — to impose narrative drama — if he can see the battlefield through the eyes of only one soldier at a time.

So it's a surprise when she talks so candidly about her longing for children – although when she does so, she's also talking about the imposed narrative of female identity.

A reclusive artist who, apart from a single affair with a beautiful Russian and an annual dinner with his father has little personal or intellectual life, imposes narrative limits.

The film is ultimately a success and bravely faces the challenges of translating a concert to the cinema without relying on an imposed narrative frame.