1.   The narrative line wavers, its constant ebb and flow in political affairs and love story creating a sense of drift.

2.   Boyle switches among three main narrative lines.

3.   But her prose can be too densely worked and needs a stronger narrative line to find a home in the mainstream.

4.   But the central narrative line is so loaded down with subplots it plays like a long-term television mini-series squeezed into single-evening time slot.

5.   Her madness was our narrative line.

6.   If one reads her narrative line correctly, the child triumphs over discrimination by finding her true self.

7.   Like well-plotted fiction, they provide conflict and a narrative line toward climax.

8.   Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight.

9.   She has also gone to considerable effort to pump a narrative line through the play, but you can feel the effort.

10.   She is strong on the weathers of mind, feeling and landscape, but she has trouble marshaling them in a narrative line.