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’s hard to imagine a team better equipped to narrativize a world-historical moment—even a moment they did not choose.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2022
With no television cameras or commentators to narrativize the relationship between those two small dots, the lone rider and the full event, the vague terrain between them was cultivated instead by the imagination.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
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
Our desire to narrativize history while we’re in the middle of it is understandable, but doomed.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2013
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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