Despite its sprawling, unstructured narrative, "The Ark" is also the most authentic and universal story in the volume.

But their presence would add subthemes of personal triumph to a sprawling narrative of team survival over two grueling months.

Skill levels were always high, but choreographer Kenrick Sandy and director Ultz have tightened the previously sprawling narrative and pruned over-long dance numbers.

In 1997, with the help of a residency at the Sundance Theater Laboratory in Utah, Ms. Hagedorn set about whittling her sprawling, nonlinear narrative into a more focused theatrical form.

Still, "Tom Jones" is a work of another sort, a sprawling narrative not conceived for the stage.

Its gritty world combined the traditional fantasy setting of past FF games with a steampunk aesthetic, and the sprawling, emotionally charged narrative further expanded the game's epic scope.

If this idea produces a certain patness by the time "The Joy Luck Club" is over, it also helps to impose order on an otherwise sprawling narrative.

This sprawling narrative is a storyteller's nightmare.

The complex and evolving relationship between Ellis and Goat Man forms the backbone of Poirier's sprawling, episodic narrative.