But this volume is distinguished by his ability to pull together myriad story lines into a succinct, overarching narrative that is energized by his own legal legwork and interviews with key figures like John C. Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general, and Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser to the first President Bush.
Tenses shift confusingly as Wright describes an imagined future event so compellingly real to her protagonist that it becomes accomplished fact: begun in the conditional but quickly modulating into the past tense, her succinct tale of vengeance and remorse simultaneously postdates, prefigures and temporarily supplants the larger narrative of Norm's actual voyage.
In just 49 seconds, filmmaker Qanta Shimizu sweeps viewers into the succinct stop-motion narrative of Grandfather's Match Case.
It features succinct and dramatic narratives told in an aloof, almost deadpan language, with high-pitched singing and clipped accordion figures.
Pioneered by Norman Davies, in his unparalleled single-volume history of Europe, these break up the author's elegant narrative with succinct accounts of the main political ideas (mostly bad) generated on the European continent in the past hundred years.
The songs (mostly written or co-written by Ms. Carpenter) are succinct but deeply emotional narratives, country more in attitude than in design".
Reeves's withholding approach is matched by the film's succinct 96-minute running time and narrative economy.
Games in the Final Fantasy series have grown longer with each entry, but the most recent installments are generally less memorable than the earlier, more succinct ones in terms of their narrative.
That narrative received its most succinct airing on the BBC's "Question Time" last week, when Owen Jones, a columnist for the Independent, lit into a two-minute tirade that then went modestly viral.Firstly, this whole idea that Hamas broke the cease-fire is just not true.
