Instead, it relied on high-school football as an apparent narrative rationale, around which acute depictions of middle-class drama, among teen-agers and parents, took place.
Even with this granular structure and its comic interludes, the book gathers a satisfying momentum, enough to reveal what Saunders has called, in one of his essays, a novel's Apparent Narrative Rationale — "what the writer and the reader have tacitly agreed the book is 'about.' " "Lincoln in the Bardo" has great matters on its mind: freedom and slavery, the spirit and the body.
He argues that the self is a narrative: an unfolding rationale for what in fact happens to you.
The narrative inserts gave rationale for the upcoming simulations, i.e. make balloons stick to walls via induction for an upcoming party.
We reconstructed the aggregated text as a narrative, highlighting the rationale for and against particular approaches within each theme and summarizing reported ways of addressing tensions between the various approaches.
In particular, narratives were coded for rationales that included explicit reference to using either hypothesized surface features or hypothesized deep features in sorting.
This article provides a narrative review of the biological rationale for using IVIg in sepsis.
"While some of these gains reflect government schemes, the rationale for the positive narrative is a much broader one, reflecting such factors as the improving economy and jobs market, consumer confidence and competitive mortgage deals," said CML chief economist Bob Pannell.
The chattering chorus, meanwhile, repeatedly interrupts the thin narrative, which has a modest, highfalutin rationale (each interruption frustrates your desire to see what happens next), but really just lays the ground for some nasty payback.
This archival research provides us with a key rationale for employing rhetorical, narrative, and linguistic theories prospectively to guide public relations message design and planning, theories which hitherto have been used to judge campaigns post hoc or retrospectively.
