What's the difference between flashforward and narrative?

Flashforward


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Channel Five's US drama FlashForward had 2.3 million viewers, 9% of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm.
  • (2) So, forget about taking a chance on convoluted "New Lost" fare such as last year's FlashForward; 2010's new dramas are all about playing it safe.
  • (3) Channel Five's US drama import FlashForward continued to perform strongly, attracting 2.7 million viewers and an 11% share in the hour from 9pm.
  • (4) Channel Five's US import FlashForward drew 1.409 million viewers (5.2%) between 9pm and 10pm.
  • (5) Under The Dome (Monday, 10pm, Channel 5) is an Event, a TV Happening in the same big-budget vein as Lost, Terra Nova and FlashForward, in which the inhabitants of Earth were haunted by visions of Joseph Fiennes's chinos.
  • (6) At the same time on Channel Five, its new US import FlashForward starring Joseph Fiennes had 3.3 million viewers, a 14% share, narrowly up on the 3.2 million who watched last week's season opener.
  • (7) Of its 20 most watched programmes to date, four are sport-related, 10 are films, and five US TV shows (in order of popularity: CSI, Joey, Flashforward, CSI: Miami and The Mentalist).
  • (8) Flashforward to 2014 and Carrie (now played by Andrea Estella) is a Lady Gaga-esque pop star who has been found dead in her bathtub.

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.