Sentence examples for a conventional plot from inspiring English sources

Books with a conventional plot?

The way to read this novel is not to expect a conventional plot.

The experimental book incorporates both poetry and prose and lacks a conventional plot.

Instead of a conventional plot, "Alms," set during one day and night in the Punjab, in northwestern India, has situations.

Here the problem was not so much that the ballet had a conventional plot but that it had a plot at all.

It is the rhythm of "Light While There Is Light" itself, a book that develops by illuminating scenes, not by imposing the coherences of a conventional plot.

But this is not the only level it works on: at heart it's a thriller with a fairly conventional plot (there's a kidnapping, an escape, an aftermath), elevated by voice and by the unexpectedness of the setup.

Woolf, despite a lingering ambivalence, was sufficiently swayed as to attempt "Mrs. Dalloway," a novel written in the stream-of-consciousness style pioneered in "Ulysses" and also, like Joyce's novel, set on a single June day and quenched of almost all conventional plot or character development.

Working from a screenplay by Christopher Kyle ("inspired," we are told in the credits, "by actual events"), she takes hold of a sturdily conventional plot and makes it into a tense, swift drama of mechanical catastrophe and dueling egos.

In short, there's a lot more conventional plot.

Personally, I preferred George's narrative and could have happily read an entire novel which consisted of a more conventional plotting of her story.