A theory that gives comprehensive interpretation to events or experiences based on a claim of universal truth.
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The Cabin in the Woods is an R-rated metanarrative comedy about the science of horror movies.
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It doesn't fit the established metanarrative of Black criminality and White victimhood they choose to perpetuate.
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Trump's blatant contradictions, misstatements, and lies project the same metanarrative of being above such petty concerns as truth and consistency.
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The game uses this conceit to get at another question metanarrative fiction loves to ask: What's the role of the creator in his own creation?
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Let those who will, play these championship games of metanarratives; there is always an attentive and enthusiastic audience for these matches.
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Will we commit to a big society-wide meta-narrative of room for all?
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Together we want to build this vision, this meta-narrative.
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It's a compelling meta-narrative on gaming conventions and experiences.
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That said, the premise of the story is solid and the meta-narrative arc is full of promise.
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A realistic ethics of science will avoid both sociobiology as just another meta-narrative and moral hand-wringing as juvenile self-denial.
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Their singing of those songs is a kind of meta-narrative of English culture, bringing these themes into existence, expressing the inexpressible.
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Southern's treatment of this subject is selective, lurid, and plays up to the long-established far right meta-narrative of "white genocide".
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The meta-narrative goes something like this: From the earliest days of slavery, black men were prized and of course exploited, but also feared and envied.
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It's time again for science fiction to reassess its most beloved meta-narratives.
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Meta-narrative review was a valuable framework for making sense of theoretical antecedents and findings in this developing area of research.
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There are no meta-narratives.
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One of 2018's constant meta-narratives is that there's increasingly more news going around than anyone has time to keep up with.
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Meta-narratives and self-referential irony have been around forever, but Scream proved they could make money at the box office, that audiences were hungry for it.
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"The end of Communism marked the death of one of the great meta-narratives," Bala later told me, paraphrasing the postmodernist Jean-François Lyotard.