What it doesn't have is dramatic coherence or backbone.
It was a glittering showcase for virtuosic dancing even if dramatic coherence was not on the table.
Both have dramatic coherence and an emotional arc.
No other staging in recent memory has built upon such detail with such dramatic coherence.
Part of the reason for the dramatic coherence of this life is Truman's own doing, of course.
By filling in the details and telling us all about the players, she gives the story a dramatic coherence that it has rarely achieved before.
Yet the almost constant choreographic agitation only fitfully attained dramatic coherence.
"Kinkakuji" uses what we already know with reasonable dramatic coherence.
It's never clear just how or why Dracula's vampirism results from this outrage, but dramatic coherence isn't as important as style.
Mr. Stone defended himself on grounds of narrative efficiency and dramatic coherence.