(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.
Sutra
Definition:
(n.) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.
(n.) A collection of such aphorisms.
(n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
(2) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.34pm BST 58th over: England 124-6 (Ali 33, Prior 0) "From the middle of the bat to the edge is not a great distance", says Holding, who can make the Yellow Pages sound the Kama Sutra, only with one-liners.
(3) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.
(4) He evidently knows little of Indian culture; hasn't he read the Kama Sutra or seen the sculptures at the Ellora and Ajanta caves?
(5) From a Kshara Sutra thread which is used in the therapy of fistula in the Ayurvedic medicinal system, euphol, 3,12-di-O-acetyl-8-O-benzoylingol, 3,12-di-O-acetyl-8-O-tigloylingol, curcumin, p-coumaroylferuloylmethane and di-p-courmaroylmethane were isolated and characterized.
(6) Ben & Jerry's has not been averse to cheeky product names itself, marketing flavours such as Karamel Sutra and Schweddy Balls, as well as putting out ice-cream in containers carrying the tagline "Size Matters".
(7) The old Indian literature describes a technique known as Sutra-Neti.
(8) Has collaborated with Akram Khan, and with Antony Gormley and the Chinese Shaolin monks on Sutra, at Sadler's Wells, London EC1 (0844 412 4300), until Saturday.
(9) Ashtanga is the focus (this is Mysore after all) but there’s a wide range of other classes to choose from, including hatha, shatkriya (cleansing), backbending and pranayama as well as instruction in Sanskrit and lessons in the yoga sutras.
(10) See also Les Ballets C de la B Pina Bausch Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Now watch this A witty "composite creature" from D'Avant (2002) Sutra, with the Shaolin monks of China (2008) Apocrifu (2009) on religion and the power of the word Excerpts from Orbo Novo, "an old word for the New World", (2009) Dunas, a duet with flamenco dancer María Pagés (2009) Where to see him next Cherkaoui's Faune is part of the Spirit of Diaghilev programme on BBC4 at 7.45pm on 18 December 2009.
(11) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(12) On top of that, if the user's home is wired up correctly, the app can control other the lights and music, as well as present a virtual Kama Sutra to anyone who needs inspiration.
(13) As Donna returned to sing Love To Love You, the couples assumed a variety of Kama Sutra positions.
(14) In 2010 he's back at Sadler's Wells with Sutra (13–17, 22–26 March) and Babel (18–19 May).
(15) For the Buddhist community acts of self-mutilation by burning reflect a tradition for which the direct precedent is set in the ancient scriptures of the Lotus Sutra.
(16) The exception is Sutra, his masterly 2008 work with a group of Shaolin monks: here, Cherkaoui sets the monks as a group, with himself as the outsider.
(17) Eunuchs are celebrated in sacred Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata and the Kama Sutra.
(18) There has been collateral damage, though: last year, Apple initially turned down Eucalyptus, an app written by the British developer Jamie Montgomerie, because it provided access to out-of-copyright books via the net – including the Kama Sutra.
(19) It is a theatrically cluttered space full of her varied knickknacks, including cushions embroidered with images of her beloved dogs , a DVD of a BBC docudrama on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and, quizzically, a book titled The Married Kama Sutra.
(20) What resulted is a truly random assemblage: an album of Beatles photographs, an anti-homosexuality screed called Gay is Not Good, multiple English-language Kama Sutras, popular 1970s memoir The Happy Hooker, a set of bawdy limericks, a coffee table book of Picasso paintings and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar.