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- noun Plural form of
narrative .
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Examples
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[Footnote: Volume II of the "Student's Old Testament": contains the narratives from Samuel through I Maccabees, thus arranged.] [Sidenote: _Study of the prophecies and earlier narratives_]
The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament Charles Foster Kent 1896
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The battle of the narratives is reaching its climax in the robo-signer controversy, with lawyers seizing upon technicalities to let people go on living in homes they've stopped paying for.
House Afire Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010
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You find a post about how you imagine the events described in narratives …
My recent Futurismic links ewillett 2009
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The Republicans know that the media is so broken that spin narratives will hold sway over reality.
Matthew Yglesias » Do House Democrats Realize They Already Voted for Health Care Reform? 2010
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As a certified Sodomite, attuned to homophobic undercurrents, I'm intently aware of subtext in narratives, how superficially fun and fluffy entertainment can carry the dodgiest of messages.
Fanfiction Hal Duncan 2010
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But what you notice with all such playful narratives is that your reading mind is not content to let incoherence and uncertainty stand.
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As a certified Sodomite, attuned to homophobic undercurrents, I'm intently aware of subtext in narratives, how superficially fun and fluffy entertainment can carry the dodgiest of messages.
Archive 2010-05-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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One of the most powerful waiting narratives is the story of the woman who waits for her man to return from war.
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One of the most powerful waiting narratives is the story of the woman who waits for her man to return from war.
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I was interested to come across familiar (and less familiar) narratives from the Bible and from Christian tradition, proclaimed from a rather different direction; a useful reminder that these stories all began as living, breathing texts.
Election broadcast nwhyte 2010
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It-narratives, also called “novels of circulation” or “object narratives”, are novels or stories that take an inanimate object or an animal as its narrator, endowing it with a subjectivity, though not always agency.
How Novels Came to Be Written in the Voice of Coins, Stuffed Animals and Other Random Objects Linda Rodriguez McRobbie 2016
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