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  • But let the reader be warned: I interrupt McCandless's story with fragments of a narrative drawn from my own youth.  (source)
  • Once Louie got one or two words off, the native bounded back into his narrative.  (source)
    narrative = descriptions and stories
  • I wanted my life to make sense, and nothing in that narrative made sense to me.  (source)
    narrative = story
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  • All we heard was the front door opening upstairs, then Mom and Dad's voices and Erma beginning the long narrative of her grievances against us.  (source)
    narrative = story
  • Even Mercy was surprised, and frequently a little disturbed at the drama that Kit seemed to discover in these long-familiar narratives.  (source)
    narratives = stories
  • If our plan is to work, we must wait until it is narratively convenient.†  (source)
    narratively = told in the manner of a story
  • Miss Caroline smiled, blew her nose, said, "Thank you, darlings," dispersed us, opened a book and mystified the first grade with a long narrative about a toadfrog that lived in a hall.  (source)
    narrative = story
  • For others, though, there was no mistaking the reasons for their flight, the specific people who had driven them to flee, or even how their seemingly circumscribed personal stories fit into the broader political narratives of their countries and ethnic groups.  (source)
    narratives = stories
  • In fact it would be narratively satisfying, she considered.†  (source)
    narratively = told in the manner of a story
  • I should mention here that even though I have used only Miss Jane's voice throughout the narrative, there were times when others carried the story for her.  (source)
    narrative = story
  • At the beginning of our exchange of letters—which was later expanded by face-to-face visits at the prison—I was surprised to find just how much we did have in common, aside from our names, and how much our narratives intersected before they fatefully diverged.†  (source)
    narratives = stories
  • "I was watching you write—from way up there," Nicholson said, narratively, pointing.†  (source)
    narratively = told in the manner of a story
  • In this narrative of mine I have departed from my usual practice of reporting only those incidents and scenes at which I myself was present.  (source)
    narrative = story
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