In the end this arm's length within the narrative emphasizes the author's point: The superficial reality of suburban motherhood leaves scant room for authentic human connection.
For the most part, however, Mr. Gore's stripped-down narrative emphasizes facts over emotion, common sense over portentous predictions an approach that proves considerably more persuasive than the more alarmist one assumed, say, by Tim Flannery in "The Weather Makers".
The narrative emphasizes the diversity of Roman religion; offers a new view of central concepts such as "temple," "altar," and "votive"; reassesses the gendering of religious practices; and much more.
But the predominant migration narrative emphasized for African American southerners during the Jim Crow period has depicted a collective centrifugal experience, with black southerners fleeing deadly epicenters of racial violence, poverty, and discrimination as they headed northward or westward to freedom and economic opportunity.
Tacitus' narrative emphasizes both political and psychological motivation.
The Israeli narrative emphasizes the threats and attacks against Israel by the Palestinians and Arab states, and violence against Jews over the years.
(Thanks, guys!) Here's the basic consensus: Though the words "narrative" and "story" are largely interchangeable, a "narrative" emphasizes the structural aspects of a story and the art of telling and controlling it to influence an audience.
We refer to these as projective narratives, emphasizing how novel values and uses are projected onto these spaces, opening them up for reworking.
It explores some ways in which the complexities and ambiguities of history make standard narratives emphasizing the visionary role of leadership in history more mythic than real.
Many parents responded strongly with a counter-narrative emphasizing that the parent in the case had not been unreasonably negligent.
