coherent narrative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcoherentandnarrative
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coherent
adjective
uk/kəʊˈhɪə.rənt/us/koʊˈhɪr.ənt/
If an argument, set of ideas, or a plan is coherent, it is clear and carefully considered, and each part of it connects or follows in a natural or ...
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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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Similarly, this inability to voluntarily recollect most of the episode would explain victims' occasional inability to provide acoherentnarrativeaccount of the event.
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Drawing on these assumptions, the official view appears to be offering acoherentnarrativeexplanation.
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Thiscoherentnarrativecan be developed using clinical interventions as well.
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The victims' ability to turn their story into acoherentnarrativeappears to be directly related to their recovery.
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This process of meaning reconstruction, or the creation of acoherentnarrative, is normatively an important part of grieving and one that deserves further attention.
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Acoherentnarrativehas a point, and this point often positions the narrator in some socio-ideological space.
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That such an enterprise does not always make for a straightforward orcoherentnarrativeis not to cast aspersions on the authors in this case.
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James asserts a centred,coherentnarrativeof the self only to revise that self again and again in the open-ended intertext of difference and dialogue.
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Too often we regard the different dimensions of a town individually and separately, and it is refreshing and instructive to have them causally linked in acoherentnarrative.
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The restricted consciousness of dreaming allows formation of new "dream thoughts," but without the elaborated structure of causallycoherentnarrativeand planning that higherorder consciousness allows.
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When producing acoherentnarrative, which includes evaluation of the story character's thoughts and feelings, it is not sufficient simply to comment upon their mental state.
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Though an individual's memories and experiences of punk are fragmentary, the individual creates acoherentnarrativethat is re-formed in a developmental process, but remains relatively consistent over time.
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These parents may overwhelm their children with emotional themes or issues that are not related to the child and interfere with the development of acoherentnarrative.
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Apart from proclaiming a mind unable to maintain acoherentnarrative, the complex impact of this technique can perhaps be better appreciated if we make passing analogies with modern music.
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That moment has not yet come, and this book brings us no closer to the goal of having a fairlycoherentnarrativeand analysis based on solid evidence.
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Children older than 2.5-3 years at time of experience remain able to report their traumatic experience in a reasonablycoherentnarrativeover extended periods of time.
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An absorbing story, a swift andcoherentnarrative, exemplary direction, fantastic action, soothing music and stellar performances summarize the highlights of this triumphant franchise.
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The film does not present acoherentnarrative, and includes a number of seemingly arbitrary images.
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The rest of the book forms a reasonablycoherentnarrative.
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His films were the first to establish the basics ofcoherentnarrativeand what became known as film language, or film grammar.
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