Sentence examples for baffling plot from inspiring English sources
To begin with, the British police had a confusing picture – a poisoned Russian who spoke poor English; a baffling plot involving visitors from Moscow; and a swirl of potential crime scenes.
The merits of Peck's reviewing style — passion, wit, and contrarian zeal — are usually outweighed by its defects: endless, baffling plot synopses, a questionable grasp of literary history, and a tendency to use authors' weaker books to damn their entire outputs.
Part four of Michael Bay's robot franchise was universally slated by critics for its baffling plot convolutions, special-effects overkill and general aversion to subtlety, yet it was the only release last year to make more than US$1bn.
(There is, it must be admitted, one baffling plot hole about why some freelance assassins should make one wet job look like a heart attack, and yet in another case use a very tactless car-bomb).
To begin with they had little to go on – a dying Russian who spoke poor English; a baffling plot involving visitors from Moscow; and a swirl of disparate crime scenes.
FRANKFURT — As far as the rest of the world was concerned on Tuesday, the shutdown of the United States government was little more than political theater with a somewhat baffling plot.
As for this movie, it is a bit scrappy and all over the place, and there is a baffling plot-hole, or plot-eccentricity, concerning the nature of Cross's final confrontation.
The New York Post's Michael Riedel, who has taken delight at bating the hapless production over many months, declared the preview an epic flop, with dull score, baffling script and "confusing plot".
But their demands are plain enough: pull out your troops from the demilitarised zone in the Korean peninsula, or the prez gets it, which makes the final plot turn baffling.
The key was a genuinely baffling curveball of a plot twist involving Ben Kingsley's superb Mandarin that wrenched audiences out of their comfort zones via the kind of filmic sleight of hand rarely seen in mainstream fare.
Nary a one without a complex and duplicitous prose style, baffling haemorrhage of a plot or an approach to dialogue that was, as Obi Wan said, presumably in reference to Finnegans Wake, "as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced".
