In confrontation with a contingent situation an extra narrative effort is required to construct a new framework of interpretation which fits with one's ultimate life goals [ 21].
The jokes seem forced and there is too much of an effort to sentimentalize the relationship between Bart and Lisa, causing the show to lose its narrative drive".
And yet it seemed that whatever form of inquiry they undertook, other subliminal, imaginary, fantasy and folk and fairy tale narratives seeped under efforts to produce rational, coherent academic texts.
The narrative chronicles the efforts of an eclectic group of locals — among them a trombone player, a chef, a civil rights lawyer, a disc jockey and a displaced Mardi Gras chief — as they struggle to repair their lives after the storm.
Or, as the historian Albert Cowdrey expresses it in the introduction to "Land's End," the Corps' official narrative of its efforts in southern Louisiana, "Society required artifice to survive in a region where nature might reasonably have asked a few more eons to finish a work of creation that was incomplete".
This pamphlet narrative follows the efforts of Alex Prokop (Mr. Kupsc again), an investigative journalist for a lefty magazine about to "go corporate," and Paul Cooper Joseph Culpp), a 9/11 obsessive whose daughter died in the attack, to unearth the truth in the face of suppressed information, disturbing ambiguities and, when needling the powers that be, their own amateurism.
They argue that taking action against Saudi Arabia will only help bolster Riyadh's narrative about Iranian efforts to enforce its domination over the region and occupy Arab land.
Although this 'whole' was never achieved, a meliorist narrative framed development efforts, until undercut by economic and political crisis, structural adjustment and neo-liberalism.
Mr. Kirp, a public policy professor at the University of California at Berkeley, offers more than a dozen illuminating narratives chronicling academic efforts to sell themselves.
We become merciful, she wrote, when we behave as the "concerned reader of a novel," understanding each person's life as a "complex narrative of human effort in a world full of obstacles".
