Just how the decaying estate was preserved, however, is a labyrinthine tale.
In some hands, this convoluted, labyrinthine narrative would end up a sprawling mess, but such is Anderson's storytelling discipline – informed and sustained by the precision of the cinematography and set design – that it never gets away from him.
Amid the sociopolitical intrigues of occupied village life with which the labyrinthine narrative is primarily concerned, the putative love story between Lucile and Bruno can prove the least interesting element.
With the end of the Evil Empire, spies seemed obsolete, and so did the labyrinthine narrative of the intelligence operative, with its tradecraft, safe houses, moles and dead drops.
He stopped and tried some more: his Web site is a voice in the din of the urban id; an X-ray of the city's "crazy inner life"; an operatic production; an "insane, labyrinthine, Dickensian narrative with all these tentacles and tunnels".
In contemporary gothic, Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000) takes the conceit to an extreme, with a labyrinthine text of contradictory narratives that pursue the unreliability of fiction as their central point.
The bus, which Sony says was visited by an estimated 45,000 people, simply makes tangible the devotion that already exists, presenting the show about nothing as a labyrinthine text, a fully immersive narrative that's not about nothing but about itself: totems, references, rituals.
Set in war-torn 1944, the narrative finds young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) escaping the brutal realities of Franco's Spain by venturing into a labyrinthine underworld of fauns and fairies.
You have a labyrinthine imagination.
Compensation deals got bogged down in a labyrinthine legal system.
Reaching a decision had looked like a labyrinthine process.
