The governing Congress Party, which has historically been the centrist party, is struggling to grasp this narrative to appeal to India's new middle-class voter.
Since we no longer worship the household gods, Mayenburg's conclusion may not surprise us; and any student of Max Frisch's The Fire Raisers will quickly grasp the narrative structure.
Most young film directors, reared in music videos and advertising, can cut like Adderall addicts and swing their cameras from the rafters like Howard Keel, but their grasp on narrative and insight into character limps way out back.
Whitehead found the player's ability to switch allegiances as needed to wear away at "the already fragile grasp the narrative has on Shen's conflicted loyalties".
It's easy to grasp that narrative; Golden Road was different than the other upstart breweries that strove to transform L.A. into a craft beer destination.
ICE, however, seemed to embrace the right-wing narrative and grasped for an opportunity to achieve PEP's major goal of coaxing local law enforcement to renew cooperation.
This is a film of uncertainties – and because there's nothing solid to grasp in the narrative, what we cling to is the texture of the film itself.
Sweet Violets has a Rachmaninov score, designs by John Macfarlane and swathes of lovely choreography by Scarlett, but as our grasp of the narrative is uncertain, we can't really access these things.
Mr. Wilson has translated that sensibility into a protracted vaudeville routine that exists in a cold, picturesque limbo between Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" As is often true of Mr. Wilson's work, "The Old Woman" is lovely to look at and impossible to grasp as conventional narrative.
It's something worse: an exceedingly earnest mishmash of subplots with only the haziest grasp of narrative coherence.
Ms. Tharp knows as well as any choreographer working today how to structure an effective pas de deux, but her grasp of narrative architecture is less secure.
