Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or by a narrative or narration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the style of narration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
narrative manner: in the form of a story - adverb In terms of
narrative
Etymologies
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Examples
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"We're programmed to expect that the characters' interactions with their dogs are significant narratively because we feel our interactions with our dogs are meaningful, and signs of moral integrity, kindness and humanity."
Hollywood Is Going to the Dogs Joanne Kaufman 2012
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Really, all it should do is give us an alternate take on a story, be it narratively or stylistically.
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Harmon: I want to be more psychologically and narratively clever.
Community Season 3 Spoilers: Annie's Rival, Jeff's Father and Chang's... Rise to Power? 2011
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The season finale of the narratively-troubled V (which I watch) finally shoved the story into a compelling, action-driven direction — but did so only in the last five minutes of the episode.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Storytellers: You Are Obligated To Deliver The Goods 2010
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That doesn't mean I'm writing it to please the fans specifically — I'm writing these novels to be the best blasted books that they can be, narratively, structurally, and characterizationally.
#1 mistborn 2009
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Larsson's narratively compelling, bizarre revenge fantasy of a badly abused young woman with a very compromised persona, which comes alarmingly close to a diagnoses of Asperger Syndrome, was a one in a million super world-wide best seller hit.
Warren Adler: A Smorgasbord of Kinky Sex Warren Adler 2011
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It'll be really hot this year, but if it stumbles at all narratively in season two, you won't hear the word Homeland uttered next year.
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In the conference room, the troops gathered ostensibly to brainstorm community-relations strategies, but narratively, it was for Pam to freak out in front of everyone.
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As with "Karenina," however, and within the more narratively rich material of this ballet, the Mariinsky dancers shine like precious stones.
Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New Robert Greskovic 2011
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The challenge there was ensuring that the creative decision to do that was narratively warranted and worth the effort for me and the reader (which it was), and that each storyline got the appropriate screen time, and worked with the other storylines to build tension and conflict (which they did).
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Author Interview: J.C. Hutchins, part 2 2010
Louises commented on the word narratively
If this is life trying to narratively intrigue me back in, it won't work. I'm not coming in, I'm going out. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
February 28, 2012