What's the difference between flashback and narrative?

Flashback


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
  • (2) The flashbacks also screened childhood and adolescent conflicts activated by the job loss.
  • (3) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
  • (4) The film's most chilling image, revealed later on in flashback, is of the tiny Li'l Dice returning to the motel alone and gleefully slaying everyone inside.
  • (5) The hypothesis that flashbacks can be psychologically determined symptoms is supported by the dynamics of the case and the course of treatment.
  • (6) It exists only as carefully structured piece of literature, told in flashback and conversation.
  • (7) The trailer comprises a harrowing clip from the film in which the sniper must choose whether to gun down an Iraqi woman and child who appear to be mounting a suicide attack, interspersed with flashbacks to the soldier’s life in America with his own wife and children.
  • (8) The similarity of flashbacks to panic attacks suggests treatment trials with monoamine oxidase inhibitors or imipramine for these selected symptoms.
  • (9) No relation between the flashbacks and protracted psychotic development could be established.
  • (10) Subjects with and without previous flashbacks participated.
  • (11) Although many sensory and cognitive cues can elicit flashback phenomena, smell has distinctive characteristics that make evocation of vivid olfactory memories particularly likely.
  • (12) We have postulated that indeed the flashbacks might represent an amalgam of abnormal neuronal firing along with the expression of a dynamically charged event.
  • (13) By and large, however, this was a prolonged flashback to Madrid in November 2004 when the comprehensive superiority of Aragonés's team in a 1-0 win was nullified purely because the racist abuse by the Bernabéu crowd was so much more significant a matter.
  • (14) The phenomenon of delayed recurring hallucinations is a rare but dangerous side-effect of ketamine, not unlike LSD flashbacks.
  • (15) Everything else is flashback, rewinding to show the drip-drip of humiliations that turn a listless pizza delivery man into a killer with nothing to lose.
  • (16) Simple correlations and multiple regression analyses both showed extent of marijuana use to be the only drug variable significantly related to acid flashbacks.
  • (17) The lactate infusions resulted in flashbacks in all seven patients and panic attacks in six patients.
  • (18) In my ongoing campaign against the past, I’ve weighed up the evidence – extracted largely from those who still suffer chocolate and sunrise orange swirly carpet-related flashbacks – and concluded that it was shit.
  • (19) Each has had his memory completely wiped, including our hero Thomas, who has terrifying flashbacks he can’t figure out.
  • (20) This study examined the nature and significance of these flashbacks in a work-injured population.

Narrative


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
  • (a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.
  • (n.) That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
  • (3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (4) Although the collection was one of Winehouse's major projects over the past year, it was also part of her narrative of relapse and decline.
  • (5) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
  • (6) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
  • (7) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
  • (8) The review received more than 2,200 documents, the report said, to generate a “narrative” of events.
  • (9) Narratives of illness in medical records and case presentations in teaching hospitals say surprisingly little about an important matter: what patients understand and feel.
  • (10) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
  • (11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
  • (12) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
  • (13) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
  • (14) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
  • (15) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
  • (16) All subjects expressed at least some story content, but only the right hemidecorticate narratives conveyed suggestion and implication as well as explicit statement.
  • (17) The old narrative is that of segregation, leading to confined form of space and time.
  • (18) This study examines the use of the co-temporal connectives when, while and as in the elicited narratives of 71 children between 4;10 and 11;11.
  • (19) He suggested it formed part of a political narrative, justifying Bo's removal because he and his associates were "bad" people.
  • (20) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.