She was an expert guide through a score by turns turbulent and reverent, faithfully maintaining narrative threads while deftly illuminating the passions swirling around them.
Shepard's eagerness to maintain narrative tension leads to occasional artificiality, but her writing is vivid and her meditations on heritage and grief are moving.
So the entire time that we were working on the film, the goal was just to be honest, maintain narrative integrity and push the hell out of every bit of cash and resource we could get our hands on.
In a conventional thriller, the solution would be to maintain narrative tension at all costs, keeping the cross-cutting between past and present rapid and eliminating any detail that might clog the onrush of events.
Planning tailoring options requires instructional expertise on the training efficacy tightly unified with knowledge of the technical capabilities of the system, as well as attention to maintaining narrative coherence and consistency.
Nevertheless some deviations from historical fact were made to increase interest, maintain narrative continuity, and for practical or safety reasons.
The informants kept sadness at bay through: acceptance and re-orientation to their current life situation, maintaining narratives about their identity and belonging, and religiosity.
A deft technician, Mr Murakami maintains a narrative thrust that would be beyond most contributors to, say, Runner's World magazine, even where his material seems fit for its pages.
Even as the action moves to a women's prison (scene of another childbirth, as well as a climactic riot), Matarazzo maintains a narrative logic and emotional authenticity that defy ridicule and race to the sublime.
We can't laugh at him — or do anything else at him; we have to remain with him, on his side, to root for this flawed and humorous hero and believe in his essentially un-humbled importance.As a comedy The Humbling gets laughs, as a drama it maintains its narrative hold.
