Sometimes the weight of detail stalls the narrative drive.

Its energy is spent in witty observation rather than sustained message or narrative drive.

Such collections tend to dilute the narrative drive that makes much journalism compelling in the first place.

It's the narrative drive behind the posters that holds me, the one releasing itself in details and revisions.

But this virtue is obscured somewhat by the movie's lack of narrative drive.

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

But the play's episodic nature and its lack of a narrative drive prove to be formidable obstacles.

But sympathy is no guarantee of success: you also need narrative drive.

It's a reminder that, occasionally, an author can have narrative drive and conflict within the confines of a single character.

The narrative drive is erratic and its path often confused.