narrative thread

collocation in English

meaningsofnarrativeandthread

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narrative
adjective
uk
/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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thread
noun
uk
/θred/us
/θred/
(a length of) a very ...
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The sequence of poems that follows (nos 14-30) has a clearernarrativethread.
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He has provided a close reading of the controversy around anarrativethread.
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It highlights for me the underlyingnarrativethreadof a work which the composer himself has described as being without narrative, merely 'detours and discoveries in a forest'.
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These were more interpretative and analytical in nature, providing anarrativethreaddrawing the topics into a coherent set of development and information needs.
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But anarrativethreadwas maintained, the divisions of the four books being retained as separate sections in the translation, with the fourth and last-the afterthought-being labelled an 'epilogue'.
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There is nonarrativethreadto follow.
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Thenarrativethreadof this book is musically defined in improvisatory styles, and it thus finds parallels in widely divergent musical genres.
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Etymologically, the word for plan or plot is shared with that of the 'plot' ornarrativethreadof a speech.
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Globokar is also not interested in creating a singlenarrativethreador in setting texts which allow only one possible interpretation.
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The opera loosely weaves the stories together into anarrativethread.
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At times self-serving, these memoirs provide thenarrativethreadfor this book.
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That campaign forms thenarrativethreadof this rollicking sea saga.
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A classic structure ofnarrativethreadoften used in both fiction and non-fiction writing is the monomyth, or hero's journey, with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Thenarrativethreadof each series is based on an alternative situation to the one established in the mainstream continuity.
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Anarrativethreadwas missing.
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Their only requirement was that it should have enough of anarrativethreadto make it more of a sitcom than a sketch show.
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These latter dramas were known for their deep characterization and multiple narrative threads.
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The film is woven from multiple narrative threads.
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The game's story is initially told from six narrative threads for each character.
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The major characters eventually get some measure of what they deserve, and few narrative threads are left hanging.
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