Sentences with phrase «narrative momentum often»

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As directed by John Curran (Tracks), the deliberately paced film takes a straightforward approach yet too often lacks narrative momentum.

Shifting between the three main characters in a haphazard, often bewildering manner, Kick - Ass 2 never builds any narrative momentum, feeling much more like a routine series of unrelated episodes about Life In These Trying Times.

The notion — by some of my fellow reviewers — that the book is too long is precisely the reason I found it captivating... Indeed, most contemporary books are so in love with their own postmodernity that they often run out of narrative momentum within the first 200 pages.

- Library Journal «Though inventive and well crafted, the novel neither fully endears its characters to the reader nor establishes narrative momentum, playing at themes and romantic entanglements that are expertly introduced but often under - explored and discarded.

According to South African critic Amy Halliday, contemporary art from the African continent is «often either excluded from, or uncomfortably assimilated into, an overarching Western narrative:» Nicholas Hlobo, a young South African sculptor, mined this narrative for his 2008 installation at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, where his work was featured as part of the Momentum emerging artists series.