And it was an American story, too, in what could only be called a hysterical and insular overreaction that allowed it to become the sole national narrative.
That, really, is the sole moment of narrative interest: a knotty storyline reversal.
Lauded by Frank Kermode as the "sole practitioner" of narrative on the British side of the channel, hers was also a style denigrated as "resplendently unreadable".
The Arriaga-Iñárritu films are hardly the sole topsy-turvy narratives out there.
Smith serves as a stark contrast to the year's sole unhappy narrative: the continued injury woes of Amar'e Stoudemire, the team's once and temporary savior.
Their book, which is in Mr. Swisher's voice, as if he were the sole author, begins with a narrative of science and travel as Mr. Swisher recounts, often amusingly, the trips he and Mr. Curtis made to Indonesia to gather material for their research.
But now ISIS and Donald Trump have hijacked our narrative, becoming the sole writers of our stories.
So, Hirsi Ali, maybe you can do better and come out in defense of the ISIS narrative as the sole legitimate position on Islam?
He is becoming a mirror-image Hitchcock; both men are fetishists, but, whereas Hitch, cleaving to the path of the plot, litters his favored trinkets like clues along the way, Lynch is increasingly willing to stretch and wrench his narratives for the sole purpose of accommodating his objects of desire — eyes, breasts, telephones, and lips as bright as blood.
