conventional narrative

collocation in English

meaningsofconventionalandnarrative

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conventional
adjective
uk
/kənˈven.ʃən.əl/us
/kənˈven.ʃən.əl/
traditional ...
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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 ofconventionalandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The show mixesconventionalnarrativedrama with flashbacks, graphic animation and fantasy sequences.
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Adopting this model of life lends to the obituary the taken-for-granted veracity ofconventionalnarrative.
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The show mixesconventionalnarrativedrama with flashbacks, graphic animation and fantasy sequences.
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Rather than aconventionalnarrative, the novel presents alternating chapters devoted to each of the four principal characters.
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In videodance, movement is the primary expressive element in the work rather than dialogue (as inconventionalnarrativemovies) or music (as in music videos).
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The loose repetition and rhythm cuts short any expectation of aconventionalnarrative, heightening the dream-like qualities.
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A clearer and moreconventionalnarrativewould have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact.
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The viewer's expectation of finding a clarifying,conventionalnarrativestructure quickly gives way to the search for insight.
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The novel is told in two parts; the first is aconventionalnarrative, the second is less so.
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A common denominator for these films is that noconventionalnarrativeis used.
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For a lessconventionalnarrativestyle, the chronology of the books is sometimes changed or parts of one book are inserted in another one.
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The cornerstones ofconventionalnarrativestructure and characterisation are changed and even turned on their head in order to create a work whose internal logic forms its means of expression.
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The artists originally considered the opera as more of a dramatic meditation or reflection, in the manner of an oratorio, rather than aconventionalnarrativeopera driven by plot.
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These accounts thus draw upon conventional narratives of life at its conclusion, as well as standard sequences embodied in the assumed career of a person with dementia.
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We are told a story that reflects and reproduces conventional narratives of the life course and of dementia, characterising the deceased in terms of a moral career.
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Getting to know this ' real' and ever-changing entity, however, has required wholesale revision of conventional interpretive frameworks and the assumptions built into the causal plots of conventional narratives.
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Alexie fuses surreal imagery, flashbacks, dream sequences, diary entries, and extended poetic passages with his storytelling to create tales that resemble prose poems more than conventional narratives.
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