"course of the plot" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the sequence of events or developments in a story or narrative. Example: "The course of the plot was filled with unexpected twists and turns, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats until the very end."
Critics and fans have noted that Villanelle, significantly, does not often act as a temptress in the course of the plot.
As I left the movie, my skull was humming more than I was; much violence is perpetrated in the course of the plot, as each of the jailbirds recounts her capital offense, but the real harm is done to the senses of the people in the audience, who will find themselves in the unusual position of being snarled up in fishnets and assaulted by sequins.
As with many Star Trek productions, new, disposable redshirt characters are killed off over the course of the plot.
The game's story is linear, with the player's actions unable to significantly change the course of the plot.
She was referring, of course, to the plot of the fifties Hitchcock classic, which we had seen, as part of an impromptu Hitchcock festival, about a week before.
Over the course of the game, the plot is revealed through cutscenes using the game's own graphic engine.
On the other hand, any of the straight lines of the Nyquist plots of the ac-impedance spectra and of the peak-like courses of the plot of It1/2 versus log t can not be found in the Co phthalocyanine (Pc -incorporated carbon cathode.
The course of this plot shows that cerebral oxygenation is directly related to cerebral perfusion and even more closely to low CPP values with a breakpoint around 60 to 70 mmHg (Fig. 1).
But over the course of the meandering plot, it becomes clear that she's got other interests.
(Lucy Gannon's Beyond Reason told the story of a man who used his superiority of age and rank to entrap, bed and abandon a younger women, whose failure to cope with rejection leads her into an act of murderous desperation against her lover's wife. This is of course the plot of Fatal Attraction).
White said of his approach to producing stories, "Of course, the plot idea must come first – but the characters soon take over," and compared it to using a compass rather than a map.
