linear narrative
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinearandnarrative
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linear
adjective
uk/ˈlɪn.i.ər/us/ˈlɪn.i.ɚ/
consisting of relating to lines ...
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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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(Definition oflinearandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflinear narrative
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In the end, though, neither of these kernels becomes a fully developedlinearnarrative.
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Her moral and medical biographies are not synchronic, resisting alinearnarrativewith a clear-cut meaning.
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The picture that emerges from this dual structure is more like an extensive web of meaning than alinearnarrative.
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The play is organized as a broadlylinearnarrativeof short scenes and encounters between the three central characters.
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The structure of his analysis is clear, providing alinearnarrativefrom the baroque context to the changes that occurred in the late eighteenth century.
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In a study that is otherwise so nuanced, this ratherlinearnarrativeof the state and its elites is a bit frustrating.
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In effect, the work exploits a wide range of narrative conventions, although these do not combine to produce anything even faintly resembling alinearnarrative.
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Its dramaturgy, which always favoured highly theatricalized imagery overlinearnarrative, has made no compromise to broaden its appeal.
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Potentially, the exercise allowed students to deconstruct thelinearnarrativeof jazz history and associated value judgements for themselves through performance.
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Thislinearnarrativealso figures into our view of storytelling because it lacks cer tain bits of specific information, as we explain below.
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In addition, the telling of the complicating action of alinearnarrativeis frequently interrupted by paralegals when they need a blow-by-blow description of what happened.
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And he is happy to subscribe to alinearnarrativeof technological progress in which he positions the hapless brush, referring to it as 'not particularly advanced'.
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The book does, however, start by promising alinearnarrative.
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Non-linearity describes a project that escape from the conventionallinearnarrativecoming from novels, theater plays and movies.
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He added that the concept of the three starting points is also an argument suggesting inadequacy with the traditional realist notion oflinearnarrative.
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Several spoken or sound-effect segues were placed between the album tracks to create alinearnarrative.
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The book is often surreal, with dream sequences, flashbacks and departures from thelinearnarrative.
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Limited manipulation of objects is needed and there are several optional locations and things the player can explore or discover besides following thelinearnarrative.
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