Dodge is transgender, and not in accordance with the insistent media narrative of a man locked in a woman's body, but rather someone who does not wish to traffic in binaries at all ("I'm not on my way anywhere, Harry sometimes tells inquirers").
All of this seemed to be part of an insistent mainstream media narrative that the pope, on his trip to the U.S., is making comments that "both sides" -- mostly meaning Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and progressives -- will be happy about.
He was insistent on news as narrative.
Yet by directing her monologue to her children — the narrative's insistent, sometimes even intrusive "you" — Swift emphasizes the privateness of the story in a way that can leave the reader feeling excluded.
In Robbe-Grillet's La Jalousie (1957; Jealousy), for example, the narrator's suspicions of his wife's infidelity are never confirmed or denied, but the interest of the writing is in conveying their obsessive quality, achieved by the replacement of a chronological narrative with the insistent repetition of details or events.
Fluidly written, with a strong narrative drive and an insistent, polemical edge, both books established Mr. Judt as a historian whose ability to see the present in the past gave his work an unusual air of immediacy.
What provokes is not Grossman's portrayal of the doubtless miserable entrapment of teenagers on the streets of Israel's cities but his insistent manipulation of diverse and incompatible narrative strategies.
Insistent as she was about keeping the narrative scenes as realistic as possible, Ms. Taymor also intended "to play with all the elements of film — all of the elements".
The attempt to "shift the narrative" from conciliation to something more insistent stalled.
If the image (particularly the analogic image) manifests language in one of its most condensed, self-conscious, and fraught states, the lack of anything else but that insistent drumbeat in a poem--the lack, for instance, of aphoristic rhetoric, demotic diction, hypotaxis, or conventional narrative--can quickly overbear even the most generous reader.
