And the graceful adagio of his narrative rhythm may turn to tedium in the banality of your living room.

Given her subject matter, Ms. Burson might have been a bit more attentive to narrative rhythms.

Chapter 1 also begins to set the narrative rhythm.

The Eldorado episode is a pause in the narrative rhythm of Candide.

Her tidal sense of narrative rhythm hypnotizes.

The narrative rhythms of the film are nimble and the stories told glancingly, with each point made quickly and the emotional resonances left understated.

Like Holiday, she knows how to elide a string of words to create an improvisatory narrative rhythm while remaining absolutely true to the lyrics' emotions.

The movie, full of incident, never quite finds its narrative rhythm, and most of the scenes are awkward and overwrought.

"Unmerciful Good Fortune" would benefit from pruning; the play's narrative rhythm has the audience anticipating a conclusion well before it comes.

The scenes play with our sense of time and subvert the lazy sense of narrative rhythm inculcated by bad movies and commercial television.