The most archaic-looking layer, however, is the heroic narratives.

"Slavery," he says, "wrecks the simple heroic narrative of the Founding."

That love of the oral, the heroic narrative, and the obsession with recording gets him misunderstood.

But unlike Style's other shows, which focus on breaking through, here the protagonists have already written their own heroic narratives of redemption.

I see," he sighed, "a major epic, a heroic narrative.

The narrative can be based on anything, but usually the stories are drawn from Islamic heroic narratives.

Indeed, successive governments were united in their efforts to build a heroic narrative around the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program.

There are many heroic narratives in this city, but this would not be one.

Americans know that the heroic narrative of battle is often followed by the sound of taps.

A major part of the boom in business magazines was the heroic narrative.