All 9 Uses
narrative
in
Severance
(Edited)
- Well, no. Vampire and zombie narratives are completely different.
p. 29.1narratives = stories
- With vampire narrative, the danger lies in the villain's intentions, his underlying character.
p. 29.3narrative = story
- These are character narratives.
p. 29.4narratives = stories
- Now, on the other hand, he continued, let's think about the zombie narrative.
p. 29.4narrative = story
- This narrative, then, is not about any individual entity, per se, but about an abstract force: the force of the mob, of mob mentality.
p. 29.5 *
- I didn't want to be part of the meaningful postdivorce narrative he was constructing.
p. 37.2
- From Evan's wistful, beer-induced narrative, I began to drowse in a free-floating half-sleep.
p. 111.2
- He wasn't going to locate us within some triumphant trajectory of a victory narrative.
p. 121.9
- I sat next to her bed, listening and, more often than not, deciphering, as her wandering, tangled narratives flowed in a garble of different languages: Mandarin, Fujianese, Chinglish.
p. 181.9narratives = stories
Definitions:
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(1)
(narrative as in: Narrative of the Life of...) a story; or related to a story
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)