As a result, plot, dialogue, and narrative tend to be secondary to the visual art for which his films are known.

Official narratives tend to be longer and more elaborate for men than for women, for example, even when the cause of death was similar.

In practice, however, his narrative tends to include, accept and enlarge upon them in the way it flows along.

Disasters are complex, but the narratives about them tend to be simple.

When the narrative of a fantasy film tends to emphasize advanced technology in a fantastic world, it may be considered predominantly a science fiction film.

Lengthy traditional narratives tend to have an episodic or picaresque character.

Not surprisingly, more recent narratives with interracial themes have tended to take on a more tragic cast.

Tobin argues that narrative is even alien to myth, because narratives tend to form a simple and fixed perspective on the events they describe.

Even while treating Serenity lightly, though, the narrative tends to contort.

The problem with this approach, of course, is that the narratives tend to become mannered; the voice, more and more detached.