Sentence examples for contorted plot from inspiring English sources

The contorted plot doesn't really matter in a novel that is made up of shifting tableaux of freaks, fire and angels.

The weather is set fairer for today, which means that this deliciously contorted plot must have a few more twists and turns to it yet.

Keeping any thriller going for 24 episodes is not an easy matter, however, and each season is over-packed with contorted plot twists, false leads and red herrings.

The contorted plot unfolding at the Teatro Della Scala in Milan took another twist on Monday with the resignation of Fedele Confalonieri as president of the Filarmonica Della Scala, the house's independently constituted orchestra.

Michael Collins tears into literary academe with great comic gusto in DEATH OF A WRITER (Bloomsbury, $24.95), using the contorted plot of a campus murder mystery to send up the circuitous thinking and laborious scheming that passes for scholarship in the fame-obsessed English department of an insular liberal arts college in Indiana.

Maybe, but those gun alternatives meant contorting my plot in unnatural directions.

But by the end some viewers may well be wondering what, exactly, about this story merited such reverential treatment: Cain's characterisation is uneven, to say the least, and the narrative is resolved only by means of contorted turns of the plot.

It has to be noted that the visualization of multiple versions of the same test sample that differ only in coverage or error rates in a single MDS plot contorts the relative distances.

The plot is not contorted, and neither are the novelist's ideas.

When a plot is as contorted as this, no single twist seems to wield more force than any other, and you soon slump back and submit to the wash and surge of the action.

All these allusions and derivations make Daniel's parish as hyperactive as Wisteria Lane on "Desperate Housewives," where plots are so contorted they wring the humanity and familiarity out of the neighborhood.