Yet Vera's vague and ethereal prose style tends to cloud what occasionally shines through as a powerful narrative.
Kuroshima also wrote powerful narratives dealing with the hardships, struggles, and rare triumphs of Japanese peasants.
The very fact that the families were untainted by politics made it possible for a powerful political narrative to develop around them.
The Jacob story is a powerful narrative of human imperfection, full of rivalry, treachery and deceit.
But she went on to say that terrorist recruiters had woven a "powerful narrative" of Muslim oppression.
Critics have acclaimed her for accomplishing this goal in a powerful and intricate narrative without melodrama.
Most poetry is difficult but the sagas are simple, direct, concise and powerful narrative.
Like all powerful narratives, their meanings shift with each re-reading.
It is landscape as powerful emotional narrative, in which Roosevelt's story unfolds like a voyage.
A learned and powerful narrative that reveals how intimately the war and the Western expansion were joined.
