By now we yearn for leaps in narrative complexity and sensual elaboration of those earlier decades.

Dombey and Son has all the satirical indignation of his early fiction - but new shades of darkness and a new narrative complexity.

Hard to tell when a form reaches an apex of both sonic abstraction and narrative complexity.

Ms. Crawford can be led astray by her desire for larger scale and more symbolic and narrative complexity.

Since the early 80's, however, there has been a noticeable increase in narrative complexity in these dramas.

Sharp's screenplays are marked by a narrative complexity and situations gravid with implication and doom.

She doesn't shrink from narrative complexity.

They are also full of narrative complexity and metaphorical suggestiveness.

Unfortunately, that increasing narrative complexity has steadily pigeonholed it as a niche show.

Kristin Thompson argues that some of these television series exhibit traits also found in art films, such as psychological realism, narrative complexity, and ambiguous plotlines.