Assertion: novel | /r/CapableOf | take on many themes
Facets:
value: to find a coherent shape
type: PURPOSE
value: in too many directions
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: However, Yardley also wrote that the novel "takes on too many themes and wanders in too many directions to find a coherent shape", describing Axton's observation about language on the Parthenon as appealing but also arrived at "by so circuitous a route that many readers probably will lose patience along the way.