If the resolution of conflict is the 'How', then the metanarrative is the 'Why'. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
If the resolution of conflict is the 'How', then the metanarrative is the 'Why'. lolikitsune. From Wordnik.com. [Design daily news] Reference
Frye’s metanarrative is a well-made myth, but it’s an orrery built to describe an ecosystem. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference
I'm not interested in the "metanarrative" of appropriation. From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
I can agree that a metanarrative of evolution exists. From Wordnik.com. [Some Thoughts On The Nature Of Biological Sciences] Reference
For all its detail, this was also a symbolic story, a metanarrative. From Wordnik.com. ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference
It's a way in which we rationalize the metanarrative we've bought in to. From Wordnik.com. [For the Love of Boaz] Reference
But there is another piece to this story which inspires and is part of the metanarrative. From Wordnik.com. [Leah Lamb: Avatar: Giving Environmentalists Around the World a Good Night's Rest] Reference
I think this whole “overarching metanarrative” thing is over-hyped as regards meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Misfortune?] Reference
Morrison's emotional honesty and the his metanarrative tack, combined, make that ending work. From Wordnik.com. [Top 100 Comic Book Runs #25-21 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
He's trying to push a metanarrative by cherry-picking a handful of editorials that support it. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Indiana Primary A Statistical Tie] Reference
“The Chancellor Manuscript” — Robert Ludlum at his paranoid postmodern metanarrative best. From Wordnik.com. [Hoover Bleg] Reference
The article by Numbers and his co-authors nicely encapsulates the Darwinist metanarrative about ID. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Numbers interview and article - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A close analysis exposes that this metanarrative–though widely promulgated–is factually bankrupt. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Numbers interview and article - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"We call it the metanarrative," says Tom Rosenstiel, director of Project for Excellence in Journalism. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Saunders: Metanarratives and Hillary's Honesty Gap] Reference
There is a metanarrative to NY Times articles that is more important to them then tedious legal details. From Wordnik.com. [If the question is whether a life sentence for rape is "cruel and unusual" when imposed on a 13-year-old...] Reference
What are the metanarrative and its constiuent minor arcs that connect the little narratives (S&G, being one)?. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Justice And Mercy] Reference
The definition that I remember is “ an incredulity to metanarratives”, But Post Modernism IS a metanarrative. From Wordnik.com. [McCreary Ruling Good News for Science Education - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
If this longer history is more difficult to bring into line with the grand metanarrative of the Reformation, so be it. From Wordnik.com. [Translating the Bible] Reference
I have no problem with the idea of an interesting and revolutionary metanarrative where he talks to the main character. From Wordnik.com. [Top 100 Comic Book Runs #25-21 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Such implicit imports in the text construct a metanarrative, a narrative of extradiegetic context we can call backstory. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
In such claims, McGrath notes, evolution becomes exalted to a metanarrative, infused with the ideological rhetoric of atheism. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Denis Alexander: How Evolution Gets Used and Abused in the Science-Religion Debate] Reference
However, this does speak to yet another (imo) dangerous metanarrative that was (somewhat) recently raised over on Scienceblogs. From Wordnik.com. [ANTI-ELITIST HEALTH FOOD OBSESSION = YAY HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP » Sociological Images] Reference
The problem for Hillary is that this plays into the larger metanarrative about her campaign, that she'll do or say anything to get elected. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Saunders: Hillary's Diversionary Tactic Is Feeding The GOP Noise Machine] Reference
I describe the metanarrative and rebut two of its claims here. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
Let's hear it for Rationalist Anarchism and it's historical metanarrative!. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference
But is this metanarrative true, or is it simply another Darwinist creation myth?. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
This metanarrative was properly addressed and critiqued in the exceptional text by. From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
Lucinda Schmidt added her pop-sociological musings to this emerging metanarrative. From Wordnik.com. [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles] Reference
And so Transformers also contains, perhaps, one half-formed metanarrative as well. From Wordnik.com. [The House Next Door] Reference
In a sea of homogeneous fiction, the metanarrative separates the chaff from the wheat. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
A close analysis exposes that this metanarrative -- though widely promulgated -- is factually bankrupt. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
The flipside to John McCain's metanarrative of personal valor has always been palpable self-righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [D-Day] Reference
Kanon, regardless of which version you watched, had the metanarrative of 'repetition', if I'm not mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
All this activity doesn't necessarily mean that the overall metanarrative of the Olympics will be that different. From Wordnik.com. [Vue Weekly] Reference
An easier way of describing a metanarrative in this context is to look at similiar visual novels-turned-anime of the sort. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
What I do think is a valid criticism of the F / sn anime is its failure to convey the strength of the original's metanarrative. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
Apart from using polemics, this article recapitulates the standard Darwinist metanarrative about ID, which goes something like this. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
That is, I get that consumers have moved beyond the need to connect small narratives (individual works) with some underlying metanarrative. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
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