Sentence examples for closely plotted from inspiring English sources

You said: Tense, closely plotted detective story with a moral outlook.

In 1983 A Little Local Murder was published to much critical acclaim in the US, where one critic described it as "maliciously funny, closely plotted, acutely observed and genuinely puzzling".

Writing in The New York Times, Newgate Callendar called Mr. Barnard "one of the deftest stylists in the field (and out)." Robin Winks, an American scholar of crime literature writing in The New Republic, described Mr. Barnard's mysteries as "maliciously funny, closely plotted, acutely observed and genuinely puzzling" — a high compliment coming from an expert like himself.

In retrospect, from the vantage point of late middle age — from the helpful heights and clear air that are part of aging's greatest consolations — I see that my life was in fact closely plotted and consequential, with the structural elaboration and subtle motifs of a Victorian novel, interwoven with grace notes, subplots, and coincidences that stretched credulity and yet were inevitable.

A series of failed public corruption prosecutions, also closely plotted with Arpaio, proved Thomas's downfall.

Illusions Perdues extends to a thousand pages after starting inauspiciously in a small-town print shop, whereas La Fille aux yeux d'or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes, 1835) opens with a broad panorama of Paris but becomes a closely plotted novella of only fifty pages.

To investigate this more closely, we plotted the ten most conserved and under-represented and the ten most conserved and over-represented codon pairs against a phylogenetically organized list of all the organisms studied.

We can examine the situation more closely by plotting the empirical cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the number of users in the cells in this region as shown in Figure 4.

By extension, coverage versus EPQ plots (Brenner et al., 1998) could reflect typical user experience more closely by plotting coverage against median EPQ, rather than mean EPQ. Figure 4 illustrates the same retrieval results for both the pooled ROC n score and a TAP -k.

The plot is interpreted by considering which variable categories are plotted closely together; relatedness between variables is considered in both the 1st dimension along the X axis, and in the 2nd dimension along the Y axis.

Catch pairs plotted more closely, Sorensen's distances were smaller, and assemblages were much more concordant than were pairs of catches randomly selected from different sites.