It seems to me the lives of many entrepreneurs trace a dramatic arc — whether by design or accident.

The film keeps several narrative plates spinning, each with its own defining dramatic arc.

If you don't have a jury, where's your suspense, where's your natural dramatic arc?

It has a satisfyingly dramatic arc leading from early misunderstandings, through reconciliation, to a decade of marital bliss.

There surely ought to be a place for a format that gives writers and actors the chance to explore a dramatic arc in the space of an hour or so.

The emotional arc comes to feel formulaic, predictable — like the nth part of some mega-budget superhero franchise.

If you put yourself through this process, be prepared for the emotional arc.

Mojo might also lack a strong enough emotional arc.

Yet those gabbled phrases, and some slightly queasy top notes, find their place in an interpretation solidly centred on a simple and powerful emotional arc.

Modern wars have an emotional arc.

Can the audience not be trusted to follow the arc from bona fide bad guy to reformed good guy?

Biotech start-ups now follow an arc of development that was not fully anticipated a generation ago.

Stories of the little guys battling impossible-seeming odds follow an arc on television: ambition, setback, defeat of those odds.

His career has followed the arc of an epic poem.

Had he stayed in the crease and swung, the ball would have perfectly followed his arc.

The long arc of the shuttlecock, the graceful rallies, seemed an end in themselves.

You can trace the long arc of this now accelerating transformation from the onset of cable and satellite in the 1980s and 1990s.

The detailed military history shows the long arc of strategic ineptitude.

On the seafront, you'll find a long arc of blond sand sandwiched between the green water and a smart promenade of whitewashed hotels and restaurants.

In the case for a long arc feature (river), to add more emphasis on the label, the letters would need to be extended or stretched.

Their story has no clear narrative arc, no real rhyme or reason.

This admirable and frustrating drama starts out as a slice of life, but the slice turns into a narrative arc, or a learning curve.

Spoiler alert: you can guess the narrative arc of this romantic comedy from the first scene.

For a series to be great it needs to have a satisfyingly complete narrative arc.

How else will you manufacture the narrative arc?