Sentence examples for down the narrative from inspiring English sources
And while the show has had its share of lapses in logic and obvious backfilling of story lines, it's never come close to going down the narrative rabbit hole the way "Lost" did in its final seasons.
Though portentous philosophizing about the nature of luck occasionally slows down the narrative, Osborne shows an impeccable facility for capturing the sweat-soaked suspense of the high-stakes card table.
But Disney had anticipated his critics by muting his palette — the film is largely in tones of green, brown and blue, with strategically chosen bright-red highlights (Snow White's lips, the poison apple) — and by slowing down the narrative pace to a near standstill.
Early biblical narratives were written this way and preserved because it was a Dragnet style of "just the facts" and because they were like this, it was easy to pass down the narrative, and drag the reader to the point of the text as well.
But at times the book drowns in the details, bogging down the narrative.
Revisiting the campaign itself, and Napoleon's life and career, simply weighs down the narrative.
Not so "Spikes," a novel that never gets bogged down in the narrative of competition -- hole, yardage, club, swing -- and focuses instead on the whirl of emotions and sensibilities that bedevils a failed athlete.
After Luke's high-octane story, it's easy to feel a bit let down as the narrative moves on.
Professor Ian Brown, a former drama director of the British Arts Council, gave Scott partial support recently when he argued that NTS management places too much emphasis on contemporary "total theatre" which breaks down the traditional narrative of drama.
On the other he put down the counter-narratives.
Collider's Matt Goldberg considered that while Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger were quality productions, "they have never really been their own movies", feeling that the plot detours to S.H.I.E.L.D. or lead-ups to The Avengers dragged down the films' narratives.
