Sentences with phrase «critical narrative account»

Philanthropist Wayne Reynolds, the star witness for the group trying to block the plan to break up the Corcoran Gallery of Art, led a packed courtroom Wednesday on a rollicking and highly critical narrative account of his interactions with gallery leadership, at one point likening the Corcoran's executive suite to «a goat rodeo,» and asserting that he could do better, if given a chance.

Not exact matches

But they do provide an initial framework for critical comparison of historical events and of the narrative accounts explaining them.

Not being a criminal lawyer, I can't use my own experiences to square those two accounts (and, admittedly, my exposure to crowns is Toronto - centric, experiences may vary elsewhere — based on recent events, I'd have concerns about the Alberta courts), but the fact that certain proponents of the critical narrative characterized Marie Henein's masterful conduct of the Ghomeshi trial as a case of «whacking» the accused (rather than the complainant's «whacking» the crown) did nothing to enhance the credibility of that narrative (and, if nothing else, suggests that your construction of the «critical narrative» is not at all a straw man).