narrativize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Something that you’ve struggled with is the impulse to experience something purely versus the impulse to narrativize it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
It becomes easy — and honestly, sometimes really satisfying — to narrativize perceived hosts' slights like a modern-day parable.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022
Part of what’s “relatable” about such accounts is that we all behave in ways that are easy for others, or even ourselves, to narrativize.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 10, 2019
Even an unusually charismatic politician must face the truth that it’s hard to narrativize meeting on an app.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2019
“People tend to narrativize neighborhoods in New York, saying such and such a place is hip, or poor, or ugly or barren,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2012
In prestige television today, the go-to source material is true crime, most narrativized already by journalists, podcasters and documentarians.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022
Michelle Obama’s time in the White House simply needs more time for it to be satisfyingly narrativized; she has decades yet to finish her story.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022
That doesn’t mean we cannot be narrativized through the imaginations of those who are not us.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019
“The Texture of Falling” eventually leaves the world of narrativized fiction, as the actors begin to play themselves on screen — Allred the director, Webb the producer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
And by narrativizing everything, we are losing touch with the simple, unvarnished, modest truth of things.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023
One critic expressed amazement that Cats “has no official screenwriter credit for all the narrativizing going on.”
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2018
All those things are kind of ways of narrativizing, right?
From The Verge ● Nov. 12, 2015
The great strength of The Actress lies in Sohn’s narrativizing of Maddy’s version of that experience, her journey from innocent to hardened veteran, as a Gaslight-style mystery.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2014
I’m looking forward to narrativizing, subjectifying, and bloviating with you this week.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2013
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