"The Book of Records" is precious because it represents a narrative that doesn't conform to the approved version of Chinese history, Thien explains.
The second half of the book, another paragraph of more than a hundred pages, represents a narrative of sorts, entirely in Roithamer's words (indicated awkwardly in translation by the interjection "so Roithamer," meaning "according to Roithamer"), pieced together from his fragments.
With the boom in teen movies during the late 90s, too many felt as if they represented a narrative that was impossible to relate to and existed purely in the foggy mind of a 40-year-old ex-jock screenwriter.
DOHA, QATAR — You can't take tea with Nefertiti: But if you could, the queen of ancient Egypt might seize on the opportunity to lament that she has come to represent a narrative of "cultural otherness," or so surmise the curators of "Tea With Nefertiti," at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.
Bonneviot's Xenoestrogens represent a narrative of seepage; not to mention unnerving the viewer, who realises they are composed of some of the same chemicals as the sterile-looking sculptures.
Bonneviot's Xenoestrogens represent a narrative of seepage; not to mention unnerving the viewer, who realizes they are composed of some of the same chemicals as the sterile-looking sculptures.
It represents "a compelling narrative with regard to his ability to represent a new generation," said Walter Wilson, associate professor at the Department of Political Science and Geography at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
For some, methadone is already depicted as a symbol of 'dashed hope', representing a familiar tension between narratives of aspiration and talk of recovery desire on the one hand, and experience of unrealised promise, disappointment and limited recovery opportunity on the other (box 6, extract 6).
Everyone attending a campaign event for a particular candidate knows that these flyers represent a counter-narrative, and no one is accidentally dropping money in the wrong hat.The most damning angle here may be not the tactics of Republican plotters but voters' feeble capacities of perception.
As Karen Crouse pointed out Monday in her fine appreciation, Roddick's story has been consistently, and mistakenly, represented as a narrative of failed promise — in part because his one major championship came so early (at the 2003 Open, when he was 21).
