Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Restorative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Restorative.
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- adjective
restorative
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Examples
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From Clute's definition of story a clear picture emerges of how he sees character and setting as being bound into the story, the one being conveyed through the other by way of a narrative composed of "sequences which hearers or readers understand as consecutive and essential moments in the telling of the tale", structured as a quest towards the restoratory end-point.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Where they render the fictive world intrinsically too complex, too repulsive, too incoherent, too bereft of meaning, or too mystical to be grasped and accepted in a moment of narrative unveiling, they defy the restoratory end-point of Story.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Where they render the fictive world intrinsically too complex, too repulsive, too incoherent, too bereft of meaning, or too mystical to be grasped and accepted in a moment of narrative unveiling, they defy the restoratory end-point of Story.
A Follow Up Hal Duncan 2008
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From Clute's definition of story a clear picture emerges of how he sees character and setting as being bound into the story, the one being conveyed through the other by way of a narrative composed of "sequences which hearers or readers understand as consecutive and essential moments in the telling of the tale", structured as a quest towards the restoratory end-point.
A Follow Up Hal Duncan 2008
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