As it was, this undeniably brilliant staging fit an emergent pattern: arresting images, tenuous narrative.
In Tehran, there is a sense of optimism about the nuclear issue that derives from a tenuous narrative of Iranian resurgence.
Nearly two hours long, with a tenuous narrative continuity, "The Hottest State," whose title refers both to passion and to Texas, is far more coherent than Mr. Hawke's 2001 directorial debut, "Chelsea Walls".
Hayman writes that access to the work's "tenuous narratives" may only be achieved through "the dense weave of a language designed as much to shield as to reveal them".
But according to many experts, the link between surviving sexual abuse and committing sexual abuse is much more tenuous than popular narratives would lead us to believe.
The book's inconsistencies and disunity suggest the unreliable, evolving nature of memory; the fluidity of our efforts to shape a personal narrative; the tenuous connection between life and art.
And perhaps, in those stories, Miller will find that perfect, tenuous balance between abstraction, narrative, surprise, and suspense.
"Electrick Children" is well acted and refreshingly nonjudgmental, but its narrative continuity is tenuous at best.
It was also a reminder that family ties, however tenuous, are reinforced as much by narrative as by science.
Nearly every group responsible for creating the now politically tenuous reality of mass incarceration is offering themselves up as the pivotal character in the national narrative shift toward criminal justice reform.
"Dream on Monkey Mountain," the lyrical epic by the Trinidadian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, is an eclectic work, a layered narrative laden with historical, folkloric and literary allusions that, as the title suggests, maintains the tenuous logic and adventurous imagination of dreams.
