narrative

Definition:
1. A description of events, especially in a novel.
2. A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program.
3. Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story.

Use 'narrative' in a sentence:

1. There is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.
2. Second, a group narrative: who are we?
3. The same narrative units—gathering armies, heroic shields, challenges between rivals—pop up again and again, only with different characters and different circumstances.
4. So you object to that narrative?
5. Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
6. Narrative makes up most of the book.
7. The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
8. Sloan began his narrative with the day of the murder.
9. For the last 20 years from the end of the cold war through two burst bubbles in a single decade the US has been casting about for its next economic narrative.
10. The platforms that are most effective turn employees' ordinary job tasks into part of a rich adventure narrative.
11. So, the Former Prophets are narrative texts.
12. During the process, the brand forms a narrative itself.
13. "Sometimes it goes wrong, but most of the time it doesn't," says Swanson, who recommends starting to ask children permission to post narratives or photos around ages 6 to 8.
14. Eventually, in industrialization, the US found a new narrative of economic mobility at home.
15. The variety of narratives is great and the number large.
16. Show narrative stored and returned to user.
17. It reveals different cognitive processes under different narrative features.
18. One Lascaux narrative picture, which shows a man with a birdlike head and a wounded animal, would seem to lend credence to this third opinion, but there is still much that remains unexplained.
19. His books are always first person narratives.
20. The book is not one word too long and its narrative pace is unflagging.
21. For the last 20 years—from the end of the cold war through two burst bubbles in a single decade—the US has been casting about for its next economic narrative.
22. He was a writer of great narrative power.
23. The old narrative is broken.
24. An Egyptian narrative of about 1080 BC, the Story of Wen-Amen, provides an insight into the scale of their trading activity.
25. It might have developed like televisions—as a strange, noisy transfer of music, information and narrative.
26. But eventually, in industrialization, the US found a new narrative of economic mobility at home.
27. This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries, and some of the ways in which people in Europe adapted to them.
28. Herstory designated women's place at the center of an alternative narrative of past events.
29. His trip through the world made an interesting narrative.
30. This was mainly due to his mischievous strange narrative form rather than his content.
31. Please list and provide a brief narrative.
32. The stories share a common narrative element, epiphany, where characters experience a life-changing illumination or a moment of truth.
33. Yet rather than the to-be-expected socialist harangue, Allende subtly works her political message within the fabric of the compelling narrative she weaves.
34. Then, in 1912, an Italian 2-hour film was hugely successful, and Hollywood settled upon the novel-length narrative that remains the dominant cinematic convention of today.
35. The narrative pulls you along like a runaway train.
36. The second is about the unique narrative method and dialogue.
37. It does not lend itself to the overall narrative nor does it help to develop any of the characters.
38. I request them to suspend their decision until they have read my narrative.
39. The narrative interrupts here and focuses on the setting where Nutmeg is telling the narrator this story.
40. Throughout American history, there has almost always been at least one central economic narrative that gave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and seek their fortune elsewhere.
41. Three major narratives intertwine within Foucault's text, 'Madness and Civilisation'
42. Frost as a narrator, in these great poems I'm describing, frames his people's words minimally, with few bits of narrative information.
43. The books that result have intensity and a fascinating immediacy, far beyond that of ordinary narrative.
44. Their own lives already seemed to possess the symmetries of narrative art.
45. His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.
46. In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.
47. The possible consequences so filled his mind that he lost the thread of Wan Da's narrative.
48. A longer lifespan is changing the narrative structure of life itself.
49. The story shows a strong narrative gift and a vivid eye for detail.
50. The novel contains too much dialogue and not enough narrative.
51. Neither author was very strong on narrative.
52. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
53. Throughout American history there has almost always been at least one central economic narrative that gave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and seek their fortune elsewhere.