Synonym: narration, story, tale. Similar words: cooperative, administrative, native, relative, innovative, relatively, initiative, legislative. Meaning: ['nærətɪv] n. 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. adj. consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story.
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91. No work that properly considers developments in different countries and continents and pieces them together in a satisfying, narrative whole.
92. This bawdy academic satire, with its potentially offensive laddish point of view, turns out to be a traditional romantic narrative.
93. A significant feature of this narrative as a whole is the division between what might be loosely termed descriptive and actional frames.
94. Amyntas is a pastoral narrative of self-redemption in relation to, in the desire for, and in the space of, the other.
95. The deconstruction of narrative as a natural or unproblematic activity was to be amplified by several other literary theorists.
96. Her large supporting cast never really comes to life, and she allows too many strangely unfocused interruptions to her narrative flow.
97. Some central features of narrative construction were studied, including the gradual embellishment of stories and their emotional content.
98. Zab finds herself using the now obsolete narrative conventions of the memoir.
99. What it does do very obviously is to construct a narrative, and a very readable one.
100. But efforts to keep the narrative on track are often disrupted by amateurish lighting and camerawork.
101. Story, narrative, is what best keeps a crime novel squarely in the entertainment field and one should never forget it.
102. For example, Dickens is fond of parenthetical constructions which allow the generalizing authorial voice to interrupt the narrative flow.
103. The poem depicted a real-life situation and did so along a straight narrative line.
104. Yet throughout the narrative, Prost's awareness of the dividing line between professional respect and personal friendship is firmly evident.
105. Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope, and its consequently segmented narrative.
106. It was a cross between prose and poetry- a mixture of narrative[sentencedict .com], lyric and drama.
107. By changing the narrative focus frequently, Hood fails to control the direction of her novel.
108. He laces his narrative with a great deal of information and conclusions derived from other sources.
109. As at the end of Dame Sirith, the cycle of fabliau narrative is ready to roll around again.
110. My own approach is not biographical, and assumes neither a clear-cut persona nor a narrative sequence.
111. Character, narrative, plot - only a dogged, dull-witted plodder like Malcolm Lodgebury bothers with that sort of stuff now.
112. Not only did it dislocate time and space, but it also undermined the linear structure of conventional narrative.
113. Hayley's crimes are petty and dishonourable, a contrast which reveals the falsity of the narrative assumptions Philip makes.
114. Once Abraham can see the place where he will kill his son, the pace of the narrative slows right down.
115. From the start Bergman's narrative was for me an assemblage of visual and sound sensations.
116. I ask myself what happened next and if it is significant to the narrative.
117. Clarify your understanding of the main differences between narrative, description and analysis in historical writing. 3.
118. His love of poetic and narrative sequences culminates in the three book designs that dominate the exhibition.
119. There is too Biblical a ring about the language - especially in the brief bits of narrative.
120. The new narrative itself falls into at least two phases.
More similar words: cooperative, administrative, native, relative, innovative, relatively, initiative, legislative, alternative, conservative, representative, array, narrow, arrange, or rather, arrangement, embarrassed, arrive at, active, motive, actively, incentive, deceptive, cognitive, supportive, sensitive, objective, detective, executive, ratio.