Sentence examples for frustrating narrative from inspiring English sources

There are hints of stories – women tease and embrace; a man wraps his arms defensively around his face – but there's also a frustrating narrative reticence.

Acute emotional honesty and a frustrating narrative coyness coincide in "Morning," a portrait of a middle-aged couple, Alice (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and Mark (Leland Orser), mourning the sudden death of their beautiful only child.

The elliptical film has frustrating narrative gaps, but it is still one of the first films from anywhere to examine psychosexual issues of living with AIDS and the difficulties of adhering to a grueling drug regimen over the long haul.

While occasionally frustrating, the narrative structure is at least not formulaic or predictable.

Still firmly rooted in the filmmaker's esoteric, frustrating, provoking, demanding narrative style, the movie is also amazingly romantic — lush, ripe, rich, delicious.

Changing that narrative is frustrating and sometimes courageous work.

Especially toward the end of the film, there are huge, frustrating gaps in the narrative.

Which makes it all the more frustrating that "Discretion" lacks narrative urgency.

As the crime story develops, it turns into a far-fetched quasi-incestuous drama that leaves frustrating holes in the narrative scheme.

There is something profoundly distressing and frustrating about this prevailing narrative of "evidence based-policy" and then its implementation (or lack thereof).

These drive the film in unexpected directions and its director in circles, but the narrative's frustrating lack of focus is a large part of its charm, an organic embrace of life's unpredictability.