The split with Mr. Mottola gave Ms. Carey's music an added narrative power: "Honey," a collaboration with Sean Combs and Ma$e, wasn't just a beguiling hip-hop song -- it was a declaration of independence.
Even if one puts aside its religious significance for a moment, the story of Jesus, as told in the Gospels, is packed with drama moments and a driving narrative power.
Pagels had no argument with that, but she said to me later on that the Gospels, as literature, have an extraordinary narrative power that the Epistles, for all their theological importance, cannot match.
Second, the international humanitarian community has positioned itself as the white, western, heroic protector of vulnerable women and girls (and not men and boys)—a narrative that not only escalates power differences between humanitarian and beneficiary but also reproduces the subordination of women.
Elena Ferrante's novels have a driving and unconventional narrative power that has gripped readers across a wide cultural range.
Thirty years on, the Discworld has grown so solid and so weighty that any new novel has to exert a great deal of narrative power just to get that world moving at a decent pace.
Out of a vocabulary of plinks, plunks and ethereal sonorities, Mr. Lachenmann has built a piece of sweeping narrative power.
A further irony follows: the consummate craftsman ended up being reliant on the posthumous intervention of an editor to turn this repetitive mass of bellyaching, "booze-fighting" and self-lament into a book with immense narrative power.
He perceives the Islamic revival as "a narrative of power which can confront overweening western power, and make otherwise very powerless individuals feel as if they've got some power.
Giotto's Bible scenes are so exact and lucid, the expressions and gestures of his people so vivid, that his frescoes have the narrative power of a great novel, play or film.
