Sounds as though the Aussies have developed a very effective #! % @ counternarrative!. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
As a counternarrative to this cultural pessimism, consider the twofold optimism of science. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: February 16, 2003 - February 22, 2003 Archives] Reference
Perhaps Stern, in her speech, gave the president credit for his counternarrative, or offered some cogent criticism of it. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
Arnold Schwarzenegger, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer and others were pushing the counternarrative to anyone who would listen. From Wordnik.com. [Have Tales Of California's Demise Been Greatly Exaggerated?] Reference
As most of the world goes into internet-choking spasms of grief, there's a counternarrative from the Gothic side of culture. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: The Gothic afterlife of Michael Jackson continues] Reference
For a lot of Democrats -- and even some Republicans -- the book has created a kind of defining counternarrative of the economic collapse. From Wordnik.com. ['The Big Short,' By Michael Lewis: Why Politicians Love This Bestseller] Reference
The local counternarrative of resistance got very elaborate, as entertaining stories of weaker figures wrecking vengeance on powerful ones often are. From Wordnik.com. [AHA 2008: a very limited perspective] Reference
It must also include a major effort to develop a counternarrative that makes clear that the West has no desire to humiliate or destroy the global Muslim community. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
If Morris's account of the declassified IDF documents is confirmed, then the Palestinian narrative of their 1948 nakba (disaster) is true, and Israel's counternarrative is not. From Wordnik.com. [Israel: The Threat from Within] Reference
The Chris Bowers counternarrative admittedly puts a pretty decent spin on things, but the Shrum story – if true – is really closer to the version of events that I stated above. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Edwards, Shrum, and the War] Reference
But the mixup also is consistent with the counternarrative of news organizations that are more interested in promoting the anti-anti-ObamaCare narrative than in getting the facts right. From Wordnik.com. [Hot, or Not?] Reference
When Stern calls for "a counternarrative that makes clear that the West has no desire to humiliate or destroy the global Muslim community," we wonder if she has listened to President Bush's speeches. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
Hough was a lesser player in the conflict but his words form an interesting counternarrative to the official discursive posture of the colonial regime toward one of its most important local collaborators. From Wordnik.com. [Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier] Reference
It was a dramatic counternarrative to the insular and conservative nationalism of the Metaxas state, which had used similar images for its embodiment of tradition, sacrifice, and commitment to the fatherland. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
But you can also construct a less salutary counternarrative. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
There's two things you should notice about that counternarrative. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1] Reference
But the myth becomes reality if there's no leader to trumpet the counternarrative. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Both fought the regimes they opposed with words and the application of counternarrative. From Wordnik.com. [Steamboats Are Ruining Everything] Reference
Ramparts would stretch or deny the truth to sell our counternarrative about America and the world. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
In his opening statement, Mr. Stevens's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, offered an elaborate counternarrative. From Wordnik.com. [Blogging Change] Reference
Yet in the tradition of the counternarrative established by communities before them, through events like. From Wordnik.com. [altmuslim] Reference
The administration offered no counternarrative to suggest that this new era of big government had any limits. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
"Most lawyers who do this type of work talk to the media to create a counternarrative for their client," says Kuby. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
What emerges is a fascinating twentieth-century counternarrative that is often told only piecemeal in history textbooks. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
But in response, the U.S. has also begun to control the message, often by providing a counternarrative or admitting responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference
No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counternarrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Kos] Reference
The Q Youth Center acts as an invaluable counternarrative to youth struggling to find themselves or to be validated in all of their diverse beauty. From Wordnik.com. [WOC PhD] Reference
He reflects on the disruptions caused by Hurricane Katrina and the ways in which the fight against "global warming" became the counternarrative to President Bush's. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog] Reference
Although al-Qaeda's ideas and those of like-minded groups must be challenged, it is clear that a single, overarching counternarrative cannot be expected to work across the board. From Wordnik.com. [Mudville Gazette] Reference
But Jacobson points out that the government is often the least effective messenger for a counternarrative to terrorists; former terrorists and extremists are in a better position. From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
The value of Zinn’s work, for me at least, was offering a counternarrative to the one that dominated high school and intro college history classes. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States] Reference
What will the counternarrative be?. From Wordnik.com. [It Begins | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
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