The nave clerestory windows in York Minster contain some reused panels from a series of narrative windows, one of which depicted the life of St. Benedict (c. 1140 60).
When the autocratic ecclesiastical control over Western painting weakened under Renaissance humanism, the religious narrative picture became a window onto a terrestrial rather than a celestial world.
This new narrative suggests that a "window" to address urban policymaking has been opened, "even" in the absence of calamitous rioting.
Following a nuclear meltdown that renders most of the Pacific Northwest uninhabitable, narrative logic goes out the window.
It was unlikely that a film ever could do Tank Girl justice, because the comics were a psychedelic punkish mess – in the nicest possible way – that threw logic and narrative flow out of the window along with Tank Girl's cigarette butts.
Once the hapless bachelor has upset the goldfish bowl and flooded the room, narrative goes out of the window and the ensuing Finding Nemo-style underwater graphic fantasy loses all dramatic tension, even while accompanied by the stirring climax of Swan Lake.
The department store's grand facade was lit up and decked with little Christmas trees, the vitrines adorned in miniature scenes of winter, each telling a story, minute figures ranged around snowy settings busy acting out the festive narrative, which spilled from one window to the next.
As reporters fish the barrel that is the Q arena, the unfolding narrative is the clearest, closest window on to the Trump decision machinery and its cast of characters―Paul Manafort and his Paulie Walnuts mien, the wounded glamour of Melania, Christie's compromised credibility.
This wouldn't be worth noting ironically if Apple itself hadn't taken part in the Windows Blue Screen narrative.
But every photograph has a built-in narrative, a readable subtext, a rear window in which the viewer participates, often at odds with the presenter.
