Sentence examples for steady narrative from inspiring English sources

Despite these pauses, Ms. Wilson maintained a steady narrative mastery.

Instead of a steady narrative, characters and their milieus are conjured in quick, sepia-tinted tableaus.

For all its seriousness, "Kalamity" lacks a steady narrative drive; its speeches are too long, and its themes become repetitive.

We quickly attracted a posse of young men as Mr. El Mounadam kept up a steady narrative, explaining the tanning process in detail.

But he has yet to find a steady narrative voice to match his drawing skills, and "Mutant Aliens," like his previous features "The Tune" (1992) and "I Married a Strange Person" (1997), doesn't hang together.

In "Afghan Star," Havana Marking's engrossing documentary, suspense surrounds a talent competition that becomes a national obsession, lending a steady narrative drive to this portrait of an "American Idol -style televIdol -stylein Afghanistelevision

A steadier narrative hand and a clearer satirical eye might have made the intrigue more intriguing and the humor more pointed.

"A steadier narrative hand and a clearer satirical eye might have made the intrigue more intriguing and the humor more pointed," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in December.

In "The Twenty-seventh Man" (at the Public, directed by Barry Edelstein), Englander has written a play — his first — that has the steady, considered narrative propulsion of his stories, and their delicacy, too.

Like having a steady outside narrative occupies part of my cognition, so my brain isn't nattering away.

As they drove around, Chan, seated next to the minister, offered a steady counter-narrative: "The city people said, 'Look at the sagging roofs of the houses,' and I said [to Hellyer], 'Yes, but look at the structures.