The phrase "unifying story" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of a story or narrative that brings together a disparate group of people or ideas into a single, cohesive narrative. For example, "The underlying theme of the book was a unifying story of hope and resilience."
But in his 50-minute speech, which was streamed online by NPR Music, Mr. Springsteen, 62, posited his own experience as a fan as the, or at least, one, unifying story of pop music.
May 9th, when Russians celebrate the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, is the country's only true national holiday — a day to remember the collective suffering and achievement of the Second World War, which is the closest thing that post-Soviet Russia has to a foundational unifying story.
He'll also have to finally find a unifying story to unite his economic philosophy, for if he never defines Obamanomics, his opponents will keep labeling it as tax-and-spend socialism instead.
Some directors don't need a unifying story, but Brooks has always got lost without one.
Still, despite the varying subplots, there is a unifying story: altogether and all at once, Arabs have lost their fear.
Frame story, also called frame tale, overall unifying story within which one or more tales are related.
The novel revels in the immediacy of oral history even as it points out, "Rashomon -like, the difficulty of establishing a single, unified stoRashomon -likeand accounthe
The series is now beginning to resemble the Christopher Reeve Superman movies at their later sequel stage: a fair bit of zip, and some terrific-looking Manhattan streetscape battle scenes, but no satisfyingly unified story, and muddied by the fact that the love interest now knows the hero's secret identity.
Even as a novelist, then, Hardy was a poet, using image and metaphor to unify stories that he knew were deformed by pressure to get a sensational twist into each installment of the serial.
The sheer joy of reading any short story collection in its entirety is seeking out what lies beneath each unifying narrative.
The scientifically unquestioned unifying thematic story in all of biology is that of evolution by natural selection.
