Whether crude or literary, nearly all mysteries have a powerful narrative thrust.

However, the biographies are "written with a sprightly narrative thrust and an agreeable tone".

Her thought paused, as though Finesse were organizing herself for a new narrative thrust.

How are we supposed to read a story containing a one-line disclaimer that contradicts its entire narrative thrust?

Burgess alluded to the toy surprise we readers usually anticipate: a narrative thrust, a partial answer to a past question.

Take this scene in which Smith mocks the reader's desire for narrative thrust.

This gives the book a strong narrative thrust.

His book bears the mark of the explaining classroom lecturer more than the exciting narrative thrust of the novelist.

Verdi strove to bring structural cohesion and narrative thrust to his operas.

One is that we should combine character with narrative thrust so that the way Dalgleish feels about things should come out of what he does.