Sentence examples for understood as a narrative from inspiring English sources

Jazz improvisation is generally understood as a narrative melodic line composed spontaneously in relation to a song's harmonic structure.

Considering the subject of this paper – the limit of thinkability of an enhanced human being – it seems that science fiction, primarily understood as a narrative reflective experiment [54, 55], may be the most appropriate medium for unmasking characters that are standing at that boundary.

Thus each bookshelf must also be understood as a narrative contained within itself, one that unfolds not only through Luna's deft and refined beckoning formalism, but also through evocative meanings generated by choices that are in no way accidental.

The fictional narrative, intended as an introduction to the objectives, parameters and concepts the study sought to explore, was instead understood as a 'real story', an accurate reflection of the experiences of many Aboriginal men.

Alternately, it is understood as a representational practice in which cultural narratives are played out in material form.

In retrospect, it must be understood as a reflection of the parties' true inability to bridge their "narrative" gaps regarding refugee right of return and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Lively rather than deep, Cohen's narrative has considerable charm, whether pondering Zemurray's Jewish identity or claiming him as a man "best understood as a last player in the drama of Manifest Destiny".

Through this integration of Williams and Brooks, the melodramatic quality at play in Schindler's List, which is often read as a liability against the film's representation of history as it affords access to registers of emotional excess that cannot be explained through narrative logic, can be understood as an essential feature of the film's historiography.

My life, my entire life, from physical birth to physical death, can be understood only as a narrative, as an ongoing story.

With its emphasis on literacy and freedom, African American slave narratives document that for many African Americans literacy was understood as an essential path to freedom".

Recent action cinema -- beginning with The Matrix and continuing through the rash of superhero films in the 2000s—should be understood as narrative frames constructed to support similar bodily fantasies.