"I was soon put down under the decks, " wrote Olaudah Equiano, a former slave whose account of his experiences -- "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" -- caused a sensation when published in 1789.
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The saga seems to have distilled the formative anxieties and agonies of womanhood into a meta-narrative to accompany the real, and often less fantastic, narrative yearning of life.
Peter Clarke, an historian, makes the case for Keynes's continued relevance by combining an absorbing narrative of his life with perceptive comments on how that life shaped his views.
And so he developed a narrative of his life that was very true in some ways and, according to allegations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, appears not to have been true in other ways.
He spends the first half of the book justifying his redefinition of life in a lengthy narrative that combines personal memoir, Zen-like musings and scientific explanations.
In any case, the sound and force of the narrative feel authentic not least in the oppressive air and the grayness of life depicted in it and in the uncensored outbursts of a great composer trapped in the confines of Soviet desolation.
For instance, the narrative of the 2-minute ad follows a day in the life of a Twitter user interacting with the service to prepare for a romantic date that night.
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The narrative of this letter is interwoven with the story of Jim's own life.
Burke's rich songwriting weaves classic western themes of life and death, honor, and morality throughout the record's narrative songs.
Though the matches themselves, with their crude narrative frameworks and stereotypes, may be something of an anticlimax, the film unearths the tough and complex life experiences they distill.
The narrative is about the hidden greatness in my sister's ordinary life and our sleepy hometown, most of which I hadn't been able to see until Ruthie began to die of cancer.
Armstrong told Winfrey that the unraveling of his career is the second time in his life that he could not control his life's narrative -- the last time was when he had cancer.
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