The easy answer is that everything mattered, but without clarifying which causes are necessary or sufficient, the story does not tell us which levers we should look to first to change the pattern.
"Parked" has strong performances by Mr. Meaney and Mr. Morgan, but Ciaran Creagh's skimpy screenplay fails to give either character a sufficient back story to explain his dire circumstances.
Under the direction of Peter Gill, a dramatist whose own work has in the past charted similar comminglings, Mr. Dawes and Mr. Tennyson move touchingly and without fuss toward a shared ease that comes to a halt with the oblique grace of a self-sufficient short story.
In the United States, this retort is sufficient to silence stories in the mainstream media unless the accusations are supported by smoking-gun evidence of elite political intrigue.
"It wasn't sufficient to leave a story like that open-ended," Mr. Casden said.
He has also paid sufficient attention to the story's major players, beginning with Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger, to capture them in indelible detail.
Such industry gives a general flavour of the book – it's competently done, though there's a sense that material which might have been sufficient for a magazine story has been eked out to 90,000 words.
Fox also wants producers to provide "13, 15, 17" episodes of series if that is sufficient to tell a story, Mr. Reilly said, rather than the standard 22-episode order.
Even so, of the 16 people chosen to make the trip, only 11 have their stories told in the film; the others can be seen in the background in some scenes, their week in Cancún not having resulted in a story line sufficient to make the final cut.
While such incidents may be more realistic than the sentimentalised novels, Wilder's writing in Pioneer Girl is flat and amateurish: she had not yet learned to slow down and tell her story, creating sufficient time and space for readers to get to know characters, to identify with their travails, to build drama and sympathy for them.
