Nevertheless, [it] is magnificently vital reading, a book so charged with dramatic tension it almost crackles with blue sparks; a book so drenched with fierce emotion, narrative pace and poetic imagery that its stature as a 'readin' book,' as some of its characters would call it, dwarfs that of most current publications".
It saddened me to watch the small marvel of this fierce, tender adolescent narrative being submerged by waves of extra storytelling.
The prose is compressed and fierce, and its narrative movement is concerned with mapping the processes of thought, the working out of things.
Now and again, he palpably strives to muscle up his fine-art bona fides with varieties of abstraction, fierce or doomy narrative (a savage DOB or a monstrous character in death throes), spontaneous-looking brushwork, and knowledgeable references to Japanese and Western art history.
It may be no more than the sum of its parts, and the slightly soap-operatic finale doesn't entirely distract your attention from untied plot threads, but there is some great fancy footwork in the narrative and fierce satirical strokes that recall Tom Wolfe.
Once Mr. Triana's political intent becomes manifest, much of the responsibility for maintaining the delicate chemistry that sustains the family narrative that masks fierce politics falls to the cast of three, which plays all the roles.
Sensing that the countless images of Mitt in a Robin Hood outfit might cost the Republican standard bearer a swing state or two, Team Romney mounted a fast, fierce and sensationally effective counter-narrative.
Henry Darger (1892-1973), a Chicago recluse whose mural-size narrative work deals with fierce battles waged by small girls against the forces of evil, is a mainstay of the Galerie St. Etienne display.
On the surface, this fierce competition seems to support the talent shortage narrative.
Each one was a musical narrative, unfolding in multiple sections, moving between delicacy and fierce tenacity, mourning and defiance.
