No other figure is included, but her alarmed look out of the picture space to the right creates narrative tension.

Most of the time, that makes for passages of great narrative tension.

Exposition couldn't come at the expense of narrative tension and character growth.

They have to love making people come alive, as it were, through the use of narrative tension, rich detail and colorful anecdote.

Books like this can invite us to walk through doors we didn't even know existed, and our sense of discovery contributes to the narrative tension.

The novel moves efficiently back and forth in time to create narrative tension.

I don't think Lively intends for the secret to provide narrative tension.

Rap has long used death, or at least the threat of it, as a source of narrative tension.

On May 26, producers will cut the group to five before millions of viewers, adding suitable narrative tension.

"I think I've learned a lot from reading novels about how to create narrative tension in newspaper stories."