"narrow framing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used when referring to the way a problem or issue is viewed from a limited perspective. For example, you might say, "We need to take a step back and look at the problem from a wider perspective instead of the narrow framing we've been using."
A narrow framing of choices is another problem.
And when do they know it, in terms of their training?' This is a narrow framing of what is, in some ways, the biggest issue in policing: the hands-on training in dealing with people in deteriorating situations".
But this narrow framing of success comes at a price: young people who don't "make it" are made to feel like failures and under-achievers, often leading them to isolate themselves from their ethnic communities and reject their ethnic identities.
But such a narrow framing of the "straight interest" scants the other interests voters may have, like an interest in living in a more just society or an interest in securing marriage for gay friends or relatives.
As with the abortion question, the narrow framing of the immigration issue around driving licences forced the Democrats to choose between saying something that will piss off Latino groups (no licences) and something that polls badly with voters (licences for illegals).
The simple protocol of considering the opposite helps to widen the set of alternatives being considered and avoid narrow framing.
Their narrow frame crushed my toes.
It lined the narrow frames, which hung in each chamber.
She looked particularly bony, her narrow frame accentuated by the tight belt of her robe.
Like Heathcliff, the viewer feels trapped in the narrow frame afforded him in a racist society.
Within that narrow frame the gears of a complex narrative mesh with ravishing clockwork precision.
