Sentence examples for contained story from inspiring English sources

In this climate, there's something refreshing about a show that takes a more restrained approach, along the lines of an Agatha Christie novel: a small town, multiple suspects, and a contained story.

Here, Kelley wrote and Vallee directed every episode of "Big Little Lies," which not only heightens continuity (we're basically looking at a seven-hour film), it once again makes me wish that more of the new shows we're getting these days would commit themselves to a single, terrific season — a contained story, rather than a launching pad for a long saga.

The news could well point to season 7 being the last - seven seasons is already more than a show of this kind normally runs for, and I wouldn't have thought it would take 8 seasons to wrap up this fairly contained story.

This is where the seasonal anthology comes into play: these shows tell a contained story like an episode of The Twilight Zone, but it lasts for 10 to 13 episodes rather than one, and resets at the beginning of the next run.

It's a neatly contained story about a meathead with a tiny dick who shot a lion.

Each episode features one case with a contained story, with an underlying plot running through the series.

In 1929, Borden published The Forbidden Zone, which contained stories and poems about her wartime experiences.

Israeli books sometimes contained stories that promoted pluralism and co-existence and contained positive images of Arabs.

The Hobart Town Magazine (1833 34) survived a bit longer and contained stories, poems, and essays by Australian writers.

This was pulp-sized and 32 pages long; it contained stories from the wartime U.S. edition.

The latter groups contained stories about CAM therapies such as meditation, magnet therapy, yoga, electric shocks, shock waves and visualisation.