Sentence examples for principal narrative from inspiring English sources

First, though, we have to adopt reality as our principal narrative.

But that's no excuse for Josh's principal narrative crutch: invoking Martha Stewart at every turn.

The Ottomans' principal narrative poetic form, the mesnevî, was also made up of couplets.

"He [Cameron] had some real people, but his principal narrative was the story of the love affair".

In varying degrees of crudity, they are presented with the idea that history's principal narrative is the story of their own people the Greeks, the Turks, the Arabs and their struggle to throw off foreign influences and fulfil their destiny.

The principal narrative, set in 19th-century Mississippi, concerns the efforts of Thomas Sutpen to transcend his lowly origins by establishing and maintaining a slave-driven empire—"Sutpen's Hundred"—on the frontier.

WDE was the principal investigator of the study, conceptualized the manuscript and analysis, and wrote sections of the main narrative.

Using the distinctive features of the as principal guideline, medieval Icelandic narrative fiction can be classified as (1) kings' sagas, (2) legendary sagas, and (3) sagas of Icelanders.

Although he was generally less theatrical than Bernini, Algardi in this work effectively created a larger than life-size narrative whose principal events are dramatically conveyed.

The paradox of water as life and death relates to a larger idea she adopts from Alfred Wolfsohn, the principal man in her narrative, a hapless vocal coach, dreamer and probably her first lover, who in Salomon's work pontificates fuzzily about self-knowledge as a journey toward a state of consciousness somewhere between life and death.

The principal sources of these narratives are the two great historical records compiled during the Koryŏ dynasty: Samguk sagi (1146; "Historical Record of the Three Kingdoms") and Samguk yusa (1285; "Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms").