Sentence examples for a convoluted plot from inspiring English sources

According to Desberg, they can just be a crutch for writers, like any other lazy writing technique, such as abandoning a convoluted plot if it proves unpopular with viewers or having characters hop into bed with no consequences.

And the two actors who play those four roles and others in "The Mystery of Irma Vep" at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor jump in and out of costumes — backstage, with amazing alacrity — as a convoluted plot involving vampires, werewolves and mummies unfurls.

And while having a convoluted plot may be suitable to drama films and Toni Morrison novels, in a superhero film, that's risky.

Lost features a convoluted plot in which nothing is as it seems, and new story lines can erupt without warning.

(To get around this, Wednesday's episode employs a convoluted plot in which the real target doesn't know he's a target).

Sometimes slight flaws in an otherwise great opera — say, a convoluted plot twist or impractical vocal demands — can account for the work's neglect.

King's later foray into reality television looked at first like a strange twist in an already convoluted plot, but on a deeper level it seems like the logical extension of his experiences.

And Mark Walhberg is a cop too, in a needlessly convoluted plot twist whereby two agents from different bureaus were set up to go undercover and rob a bank and then kill each other but, now that the plot has backfired, the two agents will be forced to work alongside one another to figure out who masterminded the set up despite their mutual violent mistrust of each other.

TT has a painfully convoluted plot (actors in a war movie on location are sent into the jungle to be filmed while facing hardships only to be facing real drug runners who are actually big fans of the action film star's godawful stab at an Oscar by playing a mentally challenged farm hand...) that goes to a whole lot of bother for very little.

Grisly and stylish Brit TV series with a compellingly convoluted plot.

Needing the cash and the redemption, Bill obligingly staggers through a needlessly convoluted plot — propelled by his own hard-boiled narration and perpetually doleful countenance — before finally washing up by the bedside of a pustular blonde.