Sentence examples for arch story from inspiring English sources

This arch story of guiltless lesbian lovers in the age of gilt is principally a gymnastic exercise in language, but the game-playing, although intermittently amusing, never adds up to anything of substance (1 40).

So the Coens, writer-directors (Ethan was not officially credited as a director until 2004, for "The Ladykillers") who turned Cormac McCarthy's arch story of a psychotic killer, "No Country for Old Men," into the Oscar-winning best picture of 2008, turned to "True Grit".

Laura Davis Assassin's Creed Syndicate *** PS4, Xbox One, PC (£40) Assassin's Creed Syndicate takes the odd arching story of the series and puts you down in steam-punk London as it would have been in Assassin's Creed's timeline – a city ready for revolution.

The southern end of the complex is graced by a wide red sandstone gateway with a recessed central arch two stories high.

But Weatherstone, which Ms. Roehm rebuilt after a fire in 1999, does not have arched two-story windows nor does it have her collection of oversize 18th- and 19th-century portraits hung on brown velveteen walls.

Elizabeth and Philip blowing hot and cold non-stop, and sent off on missions that barely connect, the main story arch inching forward too slowly for my liking.

TEDxSydney performance director, Stephen Feneley, will run you through how to grab an audience's attention from the opening line and provide a story arch that holds them to the end.

Mr. Horgan of Warner Books said that "the shorter magazine piece makes the dramatic arch of the story visible, and sometimes the conclusion you reach is that a magazine article is the best format for that particular story".

Whether it's the Harry Potter effect or because authors no longer have to write out their stories in longhand first I'm not sure, but children's books seem to be coming in longer and longer and I spend a lot of time cutting out unnecessary detail, waffle and repetition and getting back to the action and main arch of the story.

While we were fed one piece of new information for the bigger story arch – the KGB now have their mole inside missile defence once more – in general this felt like one of those episodes that doesn't entirely connect with the rest of the show.

International leaders arriving in countries to demand dodgy extradition deals might do well to follow our example of cross-borders co-operation … Effectively we're being presented with a new political conundrum each week, with the personal lives of Birgitte, Katrine and Kasper largely providing the series-long story arch.