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  • verb Present participle of narrativize.

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Examples

  • Greg, I think the first two are a good example of gratuitous media narrativizing.

    Media Agrees: Hillary's Laugh Is Back 2009

  • It is the framing, prioritizing and narrativizing of events into a format that can be retold, debated and acted on by people acting socially.

    Journalistic narcissism « BuzzMachine 2009

  • It's this resonance that caused the filmmaker to title his historical video project Histoires du cinema, indicating the tension between historical truth and cinematic narrativizing, and it's a resonance that is every bit as present in this film.

    Hélas pour moi Ed Howard 2008

  • This narrativizing drive requires a tough balancing act, and Stone occasionally slips into hamfisted foreshadowing, hitting the notes too hard in establishing pivotal moments for Dubya.

    W. Ed Howard 2008

  • It's this resonance that caused the filmmaker to title his historical video project Histoires du cinema, indicating the tension between historical truth and cinematic narrativizing, and it's a resonance that is every bit as present in this film.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • This self-narrativizing — staging the self through dress as much as through public or highly publicized bodily acts — captured the popular imagination in ways that extended both women's public presence beyond expectation.

    Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

  • This narrativizing drive requires a tough balancing act, and Stone occasionally slips into hamfisted foreshadowing, hitting the notes too hard in establishing pivotal moments for Dubya.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Apparently, in the past thirty-five years, I'd become so accustomed to narrativizing myself, to experiencing my life as a story, that I could now use journals only for problem-solving and self-investigation.

    Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011

  • If we can find a way to agree that the question of life's 'purpose' is ill-posed, then we can stop discussing human behaviour in terms of fanciful motivations and metaphysics, and focus instead on plain ol 'human social - and psycho-dynamics: distress, entitlement, conditioning, agreement, the almost uncontrollable narrativizing and generalizing and imaginative impulses which our shared beliefs and institutions serve to constrain and instrumentalize.

    Wax Banks 2010

  • The narrativizing imagination does its thing, bada-bing bada-boom, and the most important works of literature in all history are centrally concerned with superbeings talking to humans and reassuring them they're (1) not alone, (2) 'in charge' of the earth, and

    Wax Banks 2010

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