Sentences with phrase «narrative digressions»

- Clare Morrall, author of the Booker Prize finalist Astonishing Splashes of Colour «The characters are portrayed with empathy and care, but the suspense over Jing's fate is lost in too many narrative digressions and an ending that falls flat.»

It weaves in and out of finding its path again, but there are far too many narrative digressions — most centered on graphic depictions of torture — that were, in my opinion, far more gratuitous than necessary.

Spectacular and eccentric details fill the frame, and unlike many similar labour intensive enterprises, Fantastic Mr Fox is riven with narrative digressions, single - serving side characters and brilliant throw - away details.

Not exact matches

It is not, as James Hester argues, a digression from the narrative that brings the reader back to the conflict that might have gotten lost in the irenic settlement of 2.9 - 10.33 The conflict is a negative illustration following what has up to this point been a positive illustration of unity in the circumcision free gospel.

But even here he undermines his narrative with flabby, repetitious writing and pedantic digressions.

But the narrative proves too episodic, and when you move into the final section — with all of its digressions — it just grows stale.

Ultimately, these digressions circle back on one another, and Linklater forms them into a coherent narrative that resembles an updated American Graffiti for a new generation.

But with the nonlinear narrative structure and digressions into the personal life of the defense lawyer Michael Nyqvist, the audience is left feeling disoriented at times and quite frankly, even bored.

Beyond the game's narrative - based digressions, gameplay also changes across République, with most installments adding new mechanical nuances and antagonists.

Unfolding as an American epic of the small and incidental, Graham's sequences of photographs span gaps of time and place, their interweaving of narrative threads, their digressions and shifts of scene creating imaginative spaces and a sense of the country at large, while mirroring its social divisions and discrepancies alongside the unpredictable fluctuations of life.

He also talked about the library experience as an analogue of «being alone at play in the presence of the mother,» and also mentioned that «digression is the sunshine of narrative».