However, some critics felt the film was marred by an episodic quality and a morose tone which muddled the love story.

Some critics belittle the play's episodic quality, but those episodes are packed with action and feeling.

At times, there is a droning, episodic quality to the life.

If there is a failing here, it is the episodic quality, the lack of a strong narrative line.

But if there's a consistent weakness, it's the episodic quality in how we hear from him about the wars.

There is an episodic but very coherent quality to Melford's compositions.

Some of the episodic quality of Argonautica can be put down to its genre, as a voyage narrative.

Some of the episodic quality comes also from the poet's literary eclecticism.

Here, however, her detached voice and detailed reporting evoke the flat, episodic quality of a case history.

This book shares a vibrant episodic quality with its predecessor.