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When the Labour leader said no, a lowing sound could be heard, the noise of an audience uniting in sceptical rejection of the man before them – a reminder that one of Miliband's greatest errors since 2010 was his failure to debunk the narrative that blames Labour profligacy for the country's fiscal troubles.
The dominant narrative shaping this election – that it was neck-and-neck between Labour and the Conservatives and that a coalition deal was the most likely electoral outcome – turned out to be plain wrong.
So this year, we're publishing our second annual "it's happening" gallery designed to inspire, excite and counter the insidious narrative from the climate sceptics and go-slowers, that the UK is engaged in some kind of unique and isolated climate folly.
I have to say The Theory of Everything is comparable in many ways, with similar narrative tropes and tricks about flawed-genius scientists – but The Theory of Everything is a much realer, truer and less cliched story.
"We can only achieve that journey up a stairwell with the strongest and most coherent narrative imaginable and we lost that pretty soon after the budget last year," he said.
The intricate narrative manifests how the fates of the characters are bound together and how Havaa comes to symbolise all that is good in a chaotic world.
The narrative spirals outwards and backwards to evoke, first, a world without seasons or colour, then the emergence of plant and animal life, then the time of human habitation, ending with a series of "prospects" of Britain which I think are among the best 20th-century nature writing.
iPhone / iPad Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be (£4.49) "William Shakespeare's Hamlet has finally been restored to its original second-person non-linear branching narrative format," chirps the App Store listing for this.
"Amnesty [for undocumented migrants] was a clear differentiator between myself and Eric Cantor, because it fits into the narrative that Eric has not been present in the district, and was out of touch – he was supporting the Chamber of Commerce agenda on that one".
"Combining text with vivid imagery and high-quality video, they have woven their narrative into a compelling and immersive multimedia reconstruction," read the judgment.
This was a way of building a narrative that leaves out all essential elements – plotting, psychology, narrative twists – leaving only the core inner experience of the central characters as the real texture of the book.
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The term "narrative " primarily functions as a noun , referring to a structured account of connected events. It can also function as an adjective , describing something related to storytelling. Ludwig confirms its versatility in different grammatical roles.
Expression frequency: Very common
