Sentence examples for primal narrative from inspiring English sources

The primal narrative of Israeli life is one of survival.

The primal narrative of any insurrection benefits from the appearance of unlikely spontaneity.

The dull, conservative older generation and the rebellious, daring younger one: this is the primal narrative of the arts.

In "Strictly Ballroom" (1992) the primal narrative was the ugly duckling -- or was it David and Goliath?

Not only because it deals with primal narrative, but because of the way its protagonists, tunes and stories travel, hear, teach, learn and sing.

And in "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" (1996) -- the version with DiCaprio and Claire Danes, set in a modern-day city very much like Miami Beach -- the primal narrative was, well, "Romeo and Juliet".

These, of course, are the bones of many Greek myths — the primal narratives that Tóibín is so attracted to.

Primal narratives like "The Iliad" or "Romeo and Juliet" obviously endure because they are rich and complex and touch each of us differently.

The sound of traffic disappears and time flows away and we're in the middle of that primal American narrative: the invention of the self.

This may be arguable, but the primal appetite for narrative -- the need to represent and transform experience even in impossibly harsh circumstances -- is the film's deep subject.

W.W.F. executives know that the Gender Blender Strategy requires primal confrontations, extended narratives and special characters like Chyna, who can drop-kick a man one moment and then burst into tears during a fight with her fiance, Eddie Guerrero.