compelling narrative

collocation in English

meaningsofcompellingandnarrative

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compelling
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/us
/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/
If a reason, argument, etc. is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is ...
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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 ofcompellingandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is acompellingnarrativebuilt on a sure-footed sense for empirical detail.
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It provides acompellingnarrativeaccount of how crucial social phenomena like the justice system operate.
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These issues aside, this is a very complex and elegant book that combines acompellingnarrativewith meticulous scholarship.
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Gamba unfolds thecompellingnarrativewith the timing and temperament of an expert storyteller.
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His eventual blindness is hardly touched upon in the narrative, despite its prominence in the title, which is one of the few disappointments in hiscompellingnarrative.
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It will now be clear that my ' alternative history' of the multiple text of this duet has, like so many histories these days, a less thancompellingnarrativedirection.
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The winning novel can be from any genre of fiction and must exhibit depth and breadth with acompellingnarrative.
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The book has been repeatedly acclaimed as a literary tour de force and as a rare wedding ofcompellingnarrativewith impeccable scholarship.
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He was also the first to make acompellingnarrativeof the past.
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When selecting a winner, the judges look for a novel with acompellingnarrative, arresting character, and which is both vividly written and confidently realised.
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A nice idea in the eighteenth century was implausible in the nineteenth, failing to produce coherent and compelling narratives.
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The citation said hercompellingnarrativeshows how particular events can be narrated and analyzed so as to reveal deeper historical tendencies and underlying patterns of thought and action.
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The interviews provide the most immediate access to an artist's thought processes and offer compelling narratives of the changing creative process.
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Using primary sources such as newspaper clippings and court records, he supplies thorough documentation of every case he profiles, while still managing to create compelling narratives and fully fleshed-out characters.
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