storylessly en · ADV
Etymology
From storyless + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a storyless manner.
Any text disciplining imagination by appearing not to be writing at all — the essence of fast capitalism — requires narration; it narrates itself storylessly.
1989, Ben Agger, Fast Capitalism: A Critical Theory of Significance:In the stringing of barbed - wires or the angular piling up of rails, however, the proximity and conditions for familiar talk are not to be had so easily, and the work goes storylessly and more speedily on.
1899, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper:Now things would have gone peacefully and storylessly along but for one big question neither creature could get out of his head.
2000, Tales from West Africa, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 70:Any text disciplining imagination by appearing not to be writing at all — the essence of fast capitalism — requires narration; it narrates itself storylessly.
2013 October 31, Ben Agger, A Critical Theory Of Public Life: Knowledge, Discourse And Politics In An Age Of Decline, Routledge, →ISBN:Still, when there is no reason to doubt the facts, if the biological etiology is known and an effective therapy is available, the path from sign to diagnosis and treatment is wonderfully, almost storylessly direct.
2020 June 30, Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
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