Sentence examples for word narrative from inspiring English sources

The use of the word "narrative" seemed to rise sharply last season, at least in the press box and on blogs.

The climax, with Hook's pensive bassline accompanying Gillian Gilbert's spoken word narrative, is New Order at their most beautifully striking and elemental.

The word narrative derives from the Latin verb narrare, to recount, and is related to the adjective gnarus, meaning knowing or skilled.

You might, for example, wonder why they seem to think it's better to use the word "notion" than "idea", or the word "narrative" than "story", or the word "interrogate" than "ask".

In such contexts, I wish the word "narrative" would get lost.

He grabs a branch of chalk and scrawls the word narrative on the board in leviathan script.

General and related the details of her collision, which a researcher compiled into a 100-word narrative and read into a tape recorder.

He pauses to give you information, however remotely related, about everything he mentions, and that information can take the form of a three-thousand-word narrative or a one-line summary.

Elsewhere, "Jetplane" is a very funny spoken-word narrative set at the head of an airport queue, while "Hittite Man" delves into ancient history, with a guitar sound just one remove from Joe Meek's "Telstar".

He even recorded a melodramatic spoken-word narrative called Man's Fight for Freedom over the B-side of Staff Sgt Barry Sadler's jingoistic hit The Ballad of the Green Berets.

(Thanks, guys!) Here's the basic consensus: Though the words "narrative" and "story" are largely interchangeable, a "narrative" emphasizes the structural aspects of a story and the art of telling and controlling it to influence an audience.