His first comment, even before he had thanked the players, was to say, with real satisfaction: "Well, it works, doesn't it?" That's what mattered to him - not the fact that the few of us present had just heard a work brimming over with innovations and with a narrative of high complexity.
Pages of hand-copied sacred texts were often ornamented with illuminated alphabetic characters incorporated figures and narratives of ingenious complexity and beauty.
Large, richly worked, diagrammatic colored-pencil drawings by Mr. Schoolwerth, made in the mid-1990's when he was in his 20's, don't display the kind of masterly draftsmanship that Mr. DiBenedetto's drawings do, but they realize absorbing Pop-Surrealist narratives of novelistic complexity.
But Bailyn, in his third volume on the "peopling" of the continent (the second, "Voyagers to the West," won the Pulitzer), reveals a narrative of much greater complexity.
This is not a full historical narrative of the increasing complexity of cancer therapeutics; for that, we would need to explore how long-standing "bedside" understandings of cancer articulated with mid-nineteenth-century pathological anatomy, and both modes with the new surgery of the late nineteenth century.
Some of the narrative complexity of a film like Warcraft is built on many existing conventions that first grew popular from literature.
This model of television storytelling is distinct for its use of narrative complexity as an alternative to the conventional episodic and serial forms that have typified most American television since its inception.
Despite the one-man army set-up, Metal Gear Solid's narrative offers more layers of complexity than a Rambo or a Bond movie, Kojima shying away from a chance for a character to soliloquise on the nature of warfare, or the role of solider pawn, those very same figures controlled by the player, on the battlefield.
Selling wine tableside--either as a sommelier or server--at those places opened my eyes to a lot of what a "foodie" is looking for in their everyday wines: a fair price, a cool narrative, and a combination of complexity and drinkability amongst varying palates.
As Diane Ravitch reports in "The Language Police," censors have gutted textbooks of narrative complexity and references that could be deemed biased.
For their own list, the association selected books based on intellectual diversity, length, ambition, lack of cynicism, narrative and complexity in non-fiction and importance of ideas and clarity if writing in non-fiction.
