Mitnick functioned both as the story's narrative pivot and its moral anchor.
"Winter Break" implicates a childless couple, on holiday in Greece, in the death of a child, using the double meaning of kid (goat, child) as its gruesome narrative pivot.
It turned out — and this revelation, which came midway through his candidacy, became the film's narrative pivot — that while he and Abedin had been reconciling, and then planning his political comeback, Weiner had continued to send pictures of his penis to female fans.
The updated version: At the end of the day, pivoting to a narrative that resonates is the game changer going forward.
Often the stories contain only one event around which the narrative pivots: a bank robbery ("The Botch"), a crucifixion ("The Gulch"), an unauthorized burial ("All Wondering").
Mr. Meyer's meandering narrative pivots on the fateful American theory that the Soviet Union had a soft Islamic underbelly, which induced cold warriors to arm Afghan mujahadeen, and later generations to suffer the blowback.
When Lionel comes home from Paris (where he went not long after the events of the first story), sees Julia again and finds himself calling her "Ma," the narrative pivots into a phase so different that its characters all but reinvent themselves from scratch.
Translating Osho's words to the page doesn't do her proper justice - as you'd expect from an actor, her work is visual, narrative and pivots on her perfect delivery.
The answer, the director felt, was "the moral parable involved" in a narrative that pivoted around how much revered head coach Paterno knew about Sandusky's actions and what he did and didn't do as a result: "People were agonizing over what they would have done in this situation, how responsible they would have been".
As a physics-minded character in the book observes, "All systems have pivotal points: identify these and the whole structure will leap into focus," and in a novel with no one protagonist, Ivan's art provides the narrative system's pivot that brings other stories into sharper resolution.
