Sentence examples for terms narrative from inspiring English sources

Polkinghorne [ 27] uses the terms narrative and story equivalent and argues that narrative can be seen as the process of making a story.

"It goes into this long-term narrative of Detroit is vacant and empty and there's no one here.

He should also explain a long-term narrative for how he would like to reform India, to make its economy grow faster.

As Ofsted admits in a damning passage on primary pupils, "some … found it difficult to place the historical episodes they had studied within any coherent, long-term narrative.

One particularly silly track compares Madonna's vaginal fluids to holy water, maintaining the long-term narrative of Catholic-poking that runs through Madonna's libidinous oeuvre.

Commodities promised a decent long-term narrative (Chinese and Indian demand) and the prospect of diversification, the only free lunch in the investment world: positive returns that are not correlated with other asset classes.Then something went wrong.

The challenge for his political advisers is how to construct a long-term narrative about his successful efforts to improve the economy despite the torrent of bad news that seems to arrive every day.

"This would play not only into Moscow's long-term narrative about securing the rights and lives of Russian citizens abroad, but also to the doctrinal imperative of ensuring security and stability on the approaches to Russia's borders," he says.

Story or its fancier term "narrative" remains only a sequence of events.

Each one is little more than a moment in a long-term narrative of personal and collective growth.

Broadly it subsumes epic poetry, but the term "narrative poetry" is often reserved for smaller works, generally with more appeal to human interest.