Sentence examples for a weak story from inspiring English sources

But all this prowess is in aid of a weak story, in which the audience never has a stake.

The rest of the package is a little light for the price – not many different modes, a weak story – but the core is solid and charmingly offbeat.

Two more weeks were taken by Frederick Ashton's "Sylvia," a wonderful work with a weak story, and Kenneth MacMillan's "Romeo and Juliet," a terrific story with too few dance opportunities of real poetry.

The focus of the play is the characters' eccentricity, but, despite good performances, they're fairly run-of-the-mill, and the dialogue, while sometimes funny, is not colorful enough to carry a long play with a weak story.

Nevertheless, mediocre comedies can make good musicals — a great score can bolster a weak story — and "Hello, Dolly!" 's composer and lyricist, Jerry Herman, and Michael Stewart, who wrote the book, pretty much stuck to the scenario that Wilder laid out.

"This is a weak story, based around unnamed sources.

(A weaker story, "Georgia the Whole Time," is from the mother's perspective when she learns she is dying).

In 1968, the Harding biographer Francis Russell offered an explanation: Harding's great-great-grandfather Amos told his descendants that he once caught a man killing his neighbor's apple trees and that the man started the rumor in retaliation — a rather weak story that Russell declined to endorse and that did not silence the mixed-blood rumors.

"If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up," he added, "I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'".

There are a few weak stories here, made up entirely of dialogue, as if Shepard had chosen to ignore the difference between theater and fiction.

Sometimes, cute personality serves in place of jokes, as with the weak story of her rescuing a six-toed cat.