Sentence examples for any synopsis from inspiring English sources

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Yet "Extraordinary Stories" is a contagiously playful and thrillingly inventive work, a film that's more compulsively watchable and conventionally entertaining than any synopsis would begin to suggest.

If this sounds like an interesting story, bear in mind that any synopsis will make this book appear better than its full, sprawling version turns out to be.

Any synopsis makes it sound twee – irascible, long-bereaved old man Tom Oakley grudgingly takes London evacuee and abused child Will into his home and their needs and gifts help heal each others' wounds – but it is not.

Any synopsis is woefully inadequate, but at the centre of the book is a pair of globetrotting journalists whose reporting embroils them in a horrific murder, organ trafficking and some kinky sex.

Sound familiar?" Apart from noting the inaccuracies that can bedevil any synopsis -- in the film, children shoot policemen point-blank, not soldiers, and the Arab population builds to a state of sullen withdrawal -- I think the flier was too coy in implying that "The Battle of Algiers" could illuminate today's Baghdad.

As Bernard Benstock highlights, "in a work where every sentence opens a variety of possible interpretations, any synopsis of a chapter is bound to be incomplete".

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I urge you to stop reading now and go see the movie at your earliest opportunity, avoiding any synopses, reviews, or trailers before you do.

Any more synopsis would spoil the story, but suffice to say it has an MR James-esque frisson.

The other man is young Charlotte's math teacher, whose secret should be sustained in any plot synopsis for the sake of the finale.

Like any really good farce comedy, "Twentieth Century" is so wayward in its methods, so crammed with seemingly unconnected incident, and so crowded with wonderful but generally inexplicable characters that any rational synopsis of it is very difficult.

I think this is part of Menendez's point with her project as well - that to delve far enough into art "inspired by the Romance Languages of Latin America" is to find that every preconception one has is incomplete or irrelevant, that one must start fresh and be open to the impossibility of any ultimate synopsis.

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