1.   And for all its shortcuts, the play still accumulates a compelling narrative drive.

2.   Neither informed historian nor skillful writer, he got by nicely on sheer narrative drive.

3.   Other problems include characters whose shared chief feature is bland self-satisfaction and the almost complete absence of narrative drive or, indeed, of dramatic structure.

4.   Some stories open with a strong punch, then lose momentum when the plot fails to sustain its narrative drive.

5.   The mandolin gives this on-top-of-the-beat romp its narrative drive.

6.   The narrative drive in each of the two main sections is strong enough in its particular way to give leeway to diversion.

7.   The style of late Romanticism gave early dramatic films their scope and narrative drive.

8.   Van Hensberger animates ideas with narrative drive.

9.   With a running time of nearly two hours, the film sometimes meanders so fitfully that it loses its narrative drive.