Though Mr. Minutaglio fleshes out Mr. Gonzales's early Texas years with some new details, much of his later narrative leans heavily on others' reporting.
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.
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame".
As yet there is no "Artist"- or "King's Speech -style groundSpeech -stylerative that pits a lean "Hurt Locker" agroundswellmbitious "Avatar".
In the Sunday Times, Dilys Powell wrote admiringly of the Dunkirk sequence ('conceived with a fine sense of pictorial narrative'), coincidentally the first Lean had directed solo.
To follow Beethoven's dense, driving narratives, one had to lean forward and pay close attention.
As the mother continued her narrative, my Iraqi colleague leaned over and whispered a diagnosis in my ear: "conversion disorder".
It's a challenging picture episodic in telling, somewhat aloof emotionally, resisting at every turn the urge to become a conventional narrative (they could've leaned into the big, bombastic good vs. evil battle with China's Chairman Mao, say, or done a Great Escape-style ending for the Lama's exile to India).
