A state appellate court upheld the trial court verdict in 2001, saying Ortega's "often rambling and incoherent narratives" in briefs he wrote himself left them with little in the way of substantive legal argument.

Although Mr. Russo's rambling narratives are at their most beguiling in the fullness of novel-writing, he adapts comfortably to the short story's narrower format.

Set against a vivid and colorful background, Sam's rambling narrative is couched in a verbose and pompous style - somewhat testing the reader's patience, it has to be said.

Most Oracularities are significantly longer than the above example, and they sometimes take the form of rambling narratives, poems, top-ten lists, spoofing of interactive fiction games, or anything else that can be put into plain text.

The rambling narrative in "Passion for Truth," written with Specter's communications director, Charles Robbins, covers much more.

Having to suppress their glee at possible failure, they posted droll rambling narratives with no apparent point on the nation's op-ed pages.

As with Sim with Cerebus and unlike mainstream comic books stories with their spontaneously generated and rambling narratives, Smith produced Bone as a story with a planned end.

The old-fashioned attributes of Dorothy Allison's second novel, "Cavedweller," include a rambling narrative, a sharp moral sensibility, attractive heroes and villains who have a chance to repent.

When I started the book, I wondered how anyone could put this rambling narrative on film.