But they do serve their narrative purpose well.

If chronology is the show's narrative purpose, contradiction - or, perhaps, confusion - seem to rule the musical selections.

It serves that narrative purpose apart from whatever circumstances the metaphor is directly applied to.

I owe all of them a great debt for whatever success 1 have achieved; any errors, or simplifications for narrative purposes, are mine.

Usefully for narrative purposes, the baby, renamed David, has a scar on his face "that would eventually lead him to his truth".

These worshippers served a useful narrative purpose for Lovecraft.

Likewise, the objects strung across the bottom of the painting have no narrative purpose.

Set in and around Moscow during, roughly, the early 1690's, the opera is based on historical events conflated for narrative purposes.

The effect is abstract, spiced by baton-maneuvering tricks that have an emotional narrative purpose.

Verbal violence and offensive language is permitted, but only for narrative purposes.