His epics, he explains, are attended by their god-hero, resident in a narrative cloth-painting unfurled when he dances.
Although their stories are not usually told together in a single narrative, guns and cloth emerge as products of national defense.
With "Bad Blood," she has created a soulful narrative from the humble cloth of her own experience, and redeemed her own life from the squalor of insignificance by the act of writing it down.
Artistic license is one thing, but to invent a legislative narrative out of whole cloth and attempt to sell it as "hardball, backroom politics" does a disservice to a public that is already skeptical of everything that comes out of Washington.
It's easier, cheaper, faster than it's ever been to say as much as you want, whether it's true or false, to say it under whatever names you choose to make up, to construct whole identities and narratives out of whole cloth and present them as real.
At more than 1,000 pages, the novel is the first in a series of 10, and while Sanderson cuts from the familiar cloth of fantasy, his narrative impetus and meticulous world-building bode well for future volumes.
"You do your rebellions anyway you can," observes Handful when her mother is punished for stealing bright green cloth from her owner, in a narrative threaded with an intricate textile motif.
The narrative also shouldn't be made from whole cloth; it should reinforce a story that already has currency in polling and media coverage.
They are complementary". This narrative clearly establishes that King, a man of the cloth, had no inherent problem or fear of science so let's dig deeper to find clues about his possible perspective on climate change.
Chapter 2 connects the materiality of the older tradition of creating prayer cloths to the mediated meanings of religious narrative.
He creates original stories out of whole cloth, with a novelist's ability to interweave narrative threads, sustain haunting symmetries and look deep into his characters' hearts.
