It strikes me that these Impressionist pictures often have little to do with the standard narratives of American identity in this era.
It was, as the fiends put it, a standard pact-with-demon narrative.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the standard narrative of recent times.
The story is a standard linear narrative, but the filmmaker seems reluctant to spell out the plot developments clearly.
I hope what we offer is a new model of reporting that adds dimension to the standard narrative about poverty.
This is used by Pakistani government to create a standard narrative of Pakistan's history.
The series has been described as a "popular iconoclasm, a challenge to standard narratives".
The book questions the standard narrative of the recent financial crisis that bailouts were necessary to avoid a Great Depression.
He argues that the main thrust of the book is to discredit "the standard narrative," which he believes it does.
Along with excerpts from recordings of interviews, such entries drive the story forward and provide a counterpoint to the standard third-person narrative.