Sentences with phrase «narrative thread»

It struggles to come up with interesting narrative threads in order to carry it throughout its running length.

Almost every quest, whether it's following the main narrative thread or a side - quest, boils down the slicing enemies up in one form or another.

I do hope the developer tries to release a game with this kind of comedic pacing and narrative thread for a 1 - 2 hour game.

Simple Message I didn't find that the book had a particularly strong narrative thread that collected together all its varied elements.

With each chapter structured around a specific theme or concept relating to the site in which it is displayed, a loose narrative thread develops over time.

From literature to architecture, academics and entrepreneurs are using neuroscience to explain everything from why we like a complex narrative thread to why round tables are more social.

The primary narrative thread boils down to the idea that «that's what fathers do,» which isn't terribly original or exciting.

These new works have a distinctive narrative thread, an impulse to tell a story, yet never reveal the entirety of any given narrative at once.

It's a very basic narrative thread but one which can involve multiple elements that all combine to tell a story.

However, it soon develops a series of narrative threads moving back and forward in time, which concern nature versus nurture, motherhood, authenticity and mapping a life.»

However, it certainly lacked a strict narrative thread as it disposed of more intriguing storylines such as Tony's addiction and the idea that the very thing that had saved him was now killing him — for set up for the larger universe.

With a particular focus on the experience of British Muslim women, the exhibition is «an accumulation of several narrative threads drawing together intimate conversations between the artist and her two sisters, ominous animated visions of a metamorphosing body, e-learning training on Prevent and staged, performed gestures.»

These raw, gestural works — such as Running with the Mule, Running for Freedom (1990), Everybody Rolling (1995), Dark Day on the Road (1993), and Cousin Irma's Garden (1996)-- build up layers of psychological drama in thick pours and mottled scraps of material that drift along various narrative threads (natural disaster, historical oppression, hope) between the abstract and the figurative.

Throw in a handful of other subplots of varying quality, and nobody will accuse «True Blood» of skimping on narrative threads or action, even if some of it is of the fang - gnashing variety and risks choking on its own excess.

Using both monitors and projections, the installation is an accumulation of «several narrative threads drawing together intimate conversations between the artist and her two sisters, ominous animated visions of a metamorphosing body, e-learning training on Prevent, and staged, performed gestures.»

The exhibition is composed of several narrative threads from Ophuis» most recent work, from the survivors of concentration camps of W...

The other narrative thread involves Susie (Michelle Dockery), Tony and Margaret's 36 - year - old daughter who is giving birth seemingly on her own.

Metal Gear Solid 3's story is the tightest and most thrilling of the bunch, using a pastiche of 1960s spy movies to tell the origin of just about every single narrative thread in the series.

The stories are stitched together by a loose narrative thread involving a man (Paul Rudd) serving as narrator who is leaving his wife (Famke Janssen) for a younger ditz (Jessica Alba).

So how can a series, and a specific episode, so rich with compelling narrative threads be reduced to «torture porn» by anyone who has any idea what they're talking about?

As a fan of the series, this frustrates me greatly, as it was one of the only narrative threads that I was genuinely intrigued by.

Cronenberg moves the film with a deadpan dream logic and avoids the swirly colors and nauseous tilting of other «drug» movies, staying in touch with his slender narrative thread.

A whole narrative thread with Michael Stuhlbarg's Hoffstetler serving as a covert spy also serves little purpose in the grand scheme of the film, only really establishing the era's geopolitical stakes.

The film, whose disparate narrative threads unsurprisingly never connect, drowns in weirdness for its own sake.

If it's not exactly the «cinematic event of a lifetime,» it's still a deeply satisfying tale of pathos and wit that manages to credibly link dozens of characters, multiple narrative threads and innumerable arguments, stretching from the first Iron Man a decade ago to Black Panther mere weeks ago.

In different narrative threads that tie together by the finale, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gives young Spider - Man (Tom Holland) his own Iron Man - grade super costume.

While there is a common narrative thread that binds at least two of the games, it's extremely tenuous, and doesn't have a direct impact on any of their storylines.

When the Untitled Film Stills series is presented together, as it was exhibited for the first time at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1995, you may begin to notice narrative threads throughout the photos as the same character is found in multiple photos with similar yet different expressions.

And then, sadly, in the final act, he undoes much of the good that has come before, ignoring the carefully interwoven narrative threads in favor of an eruption of violence.

What is to some degree original is the broadly psychoanalytic narrative thread Wilson uses to unify Lewis's life.

One particularly moving narrative thread features Sterling K. Brown, a tremulous, vibrantly sensitive actor who conveys entire chapters of grief.

With all that in mind, it's surprising that Power would opt for a fractured timeline with three different, overlapping narrative threads.

The two narrative threads collide with Taylor's most elaborate set piece, as Thor fights simultaneously between universes, a battle that is undone by Thor's own indestructibility.

In the one, you will find yourself impressed by surprise moments and the involved narrative thread running throughout which poses and tackles the question of «what constitutes a family?»

It's a film about the past, and whilst I'm not asking for some tacky flashbacks (I did appreciate never seeing Anna's first husband) there simply weren't enough contemporary narrative threads.

It might be hard to imagine that a film about CGI robots duking it out in a boxing ring could be become stale after awhile, but the closing act of Real Steel gets weighed down in too much sequel setup and not enough payoff for the existing narrative threads.

Such are the vague narrative threads that compromise Pablo Fendrik's The Burning.

Jackson Ball reviews the sixth episode of Netflix's BoJack Horseman season 2... Episode 6 of takes a classic narrative thread, found previously in many a sitcom, and mixes it up with all the craziness we've come to expect from the show.

Far from a stand - alone adventure, the last leg of Potter's journey leaves none of Rowling's narrative threads untied, resolving all questions in a relatively economical two hours and 10 minutes.

The result of these competing narrative threads is decidedly mixed, especially during the period between the conclusion of a frantic sequence in the emergency room and a finale that presents three simultaneous burials.

Between the juxtaposing narrative threads of Cecile serving in the White House and his son fighting for Civil Rights, the latter is the far more interesting and dramatically impacting.

Byrkit's a capital - S Storyteller; he allows narrative threads to reveal themselves slowly, and then unravel across the entirety of the film's runtime.

But del Toro makes the waters a little choppy by raising what should be subplots to the level of co-equal narrative threads.

Even more fascinating is that these stories are tied to the main plot and major evil but done so with seemingly inconsequential thin narrative threads.