The second boy exemplified the fat we cut off when we compose a lean narrative.
The Lord of the Rings films represented a robust cumulative achievement, but the film-maker's decision to trisect the efficiently lean narrative of The Hobbit smacked of cynicism from the off.
As he is dying, he says "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" The film is characterized by its tight, lean narrative, and runs at a brisk pace for its 79 minutes.
By 1937 those intentions came to the stage as Steinbeck adapted the novella into a play for the Broadway production, directed by George Kaufman, and I would argue that it is stronger than the novella a more compressed and lean narrative of character and inevitable tragedy.
The existing Story Mode -- basically a prologue to the full-fledged Story experience being added by Capcom in June as free DLC -- is woefully short, lean on narrative, and doesn't even have an option to adjust difficulty.
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame".
This fascinating film, whose lean, information-packed narrative doesn't waste a word, succeeds in compiling sharp, concise portraits of its four articulate and complicated subjects.
At the center of this lean first-person narrative is Drew, an athletically gifted African-American teenager with plummy visions of a college scholarship and N.B.A. superstardom.
For social media, you might lean toward micro-narratives, GIFs and video, whereas for audiences and industries in which homepage visits are common, you might beef up your interactive content.
This lean and lethal noir narrative finds Sallis's antihero, Driver, in Phoenix, trying to look invisible after taking down four men with murder in mind.
In the days following the Russian meeting controversy involving Trump Jr., there's been an absurd though unsurprising attempt by some to lean on the latter narrative.
