The appetite of today's media, both traditional and social, requires feeding with a diet of ever more volatile narratives.
Out of it, one way or another, arise the parallel universes of sci-fi, the volatile atmospherics of gothic narrative, the treacherous physics of video-game worlds and the notion of existence as a labyrinth in which we spawn alternative possible versions of our lives at every juncture.
His presence towers over the narrative - charismatic, volatile, impossible - and Howard's recollection of their marriage and its decline is tender and immensely sad.
But some of her caprices seem to be less the result of her own volatile, unpredictable temperament than of the narrative requirement that she serve as a foil.
In a country as volatile as Egypt, control of the narrative can easily translate into control of the streets, and control of the streets into political power.
In the hours and days since the stock market crashed, then fluttered back to life — if a volatile one — television has spun an uplifting riches to rags narrative out of a shattered and murky economic picture.
The book is more a study in character – of the swift reactions of a volatile, opportunistic and irresponsible egotist to changing circumstances – than a staid political narrative.
You don't need to know the story to follow the narrative, for the prints offer a realistic portrayal of these volatile events, arranged in more or less chronological order.
The "People's Climate" March webpage shows images of poor people drowning thanks to the behavior of rich people, part of the narrative that using fossil fuels is making our climate incredibly volatile and dangerous.
Unfortunately, the current volatile form of this discussion undercuts our mixed-race President's signature narrative trope: he is a racially, and, thus, politically, transcendent leader.
