Sentence examples for a plot complication from inspiring English sources

Any good writer will tell you that it's a stretch to introduce a couple of circus clowns to create a plot complication.

"Russian Doll" blends the least of Woody Allen with a plot complication out of "Love, American Style," stuck together with sitcom glue.

In a plot complication that's no more plausible but reinforces the sexual dynamic between Stephanie and the men in her life, she's hired by the dangerously attractive Ranger ("a man of mysterious talents") to investigate the humiliating break-ins that have tarnished the reputation of his fancy security firm.

As for Cornelia, she indulges in such an excess of lap-sitting, leg-draping and hand-holding that one suspects it's just a setup for an inevitable plot complication: "People stared at us," Victor frets, "probably mistaking us for some May-December couple".

She is played beautifully by Lizbeth Mackay as a submissive, self-deluding earth mother, but she has, alas, been given her own awful secret, a ponderous plot complication.

But, despite all this and a mighty pitched battle with Mordor's gruesome and violent soldier-creatures, there is a strange paucity of plot complication, an absence of anything unfolding, all the more disconcerting because of the clotted and indigestible mythic back story that we have to wade through before anything happens at all.

Evil existed as mere plot complication, as eradicable as a malarial mosquito.

After about an hour, Child 44 runs off the rails into a swamp of plot complications which even a master like Price can't dig his way out of.

It leaves us with a pretty static story without much in the way of character development or plot complication.

Adapted by Jason Richman and David Zabel ("Detroit 1-8-7"), itheoves the winning group to a Queens gas station and expands it but keeps the plot complications: a cheating husband, an assumed identity, an angry wife, an ill-timed robbery.

During what's meant to be a short time, the plot complications amass, as do incoherent camera setups and yet more elaborately trussed-up female bodies.