His straight, factual narrative of what is happening in our public schools makes you wonder how much longer America can survive liberalism.

In this instance the conflict is between the factual narrative and the biting hyperbole of the new, epic/formalistic tone.

Dunphy did his by-then-classic type of call: a calm, distilled, factual narrative that left room for silence.

But from the beginning, the White House's inability to provide a consistent factual narrative of the Clintons' financial history has made the entire business seem suspicious.

As a result, we feel compelled to reject not only the committees' conclusions, but the supposedly "factual" narrative as well.

This was at a time when factual narrative, or case studies, in sociology had been replaced by statistical studies, Mr. Rhodes writes.

The book is a strong piece of journalism crammed with fascinating detail, done in an unassuming style driven by the factual narrative.

For all of our chief speechwriter's finer qualities, the firm adherence to factual narrative is not a strong point.

Stanley Karnow, a respected Asian correspondent during the war, provides the factual narrative.

Inspired to uncover the factual narrative behind the events that had so ghoulishly echoed his fictional one, he began research on the book almost immediately.