And his Ken-doll perfection next to her real-world flaws was supposed to tell us something about what a decent fellow he was, or so the superficial, insulting, credulous narrative went.
If non-linear jigsaws were too superficial, then old-school linear narrative – of the sort practised by Hollywood – is too lodged in a single, self-serving perspective.
In an introductory biography of just 79 pages, McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," delivers a speedy narrative but no superficial treatment.
James M. McPherson, whose "Battle Cry of Freedom" (1988) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and is the most readable short history of the Civil War, has just written an introductory biography, Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University, $12.95) — only 79 pages, a speedy narrative but no superficial treatment.
Without sacrificing narrative — or the superficial thrill to be got out of simply examining the gleaming objects on Irene Forsyte's dressing table — the "Saga" has been adapted to our times, by Jan McVerry and Stephen Mallatratt, who have given it a distinctly feminist slant.
For example, radical Islamism is really quite superficial and reactionary, but the narrative resonates with people who are having existential identity crises and who have religious views that can be manipulated.
In addition, disclosure messages can vary in the degree of intimacy (from superficial to intimate) and narrativity (from a random blather to a story-like narrative).
A narrative that makes connectedness superficial and manicured.
But as is often the case when novels are translated to the stage, the narrative seemed squeezed and superficial, cramped by the necessity of wrapping things up in the allotted time.
Poignant story, very superficial delivery.
