Sentence examples for cumbersome plot from inspiring English sources

With its cumbersome plot, racy libretto and unabashed mix of the heroic and the farcical, the opera has thrown off many conductors as well.

But the heavy doses of whimsy with which it is delivered, along with the cumbersome plot, which also makes time for a tentative romance between Billy and a cute kleptomaniac (Anika Larsen), are the musical's undoing.

If his character's Canadian identity is just a way of getting an American-sounding Hollywood star to play a character working for the British, then this is another layer of baffling and cumbersome plot exposition.

But critics were not so kind to Pizzolatto's second effort, which featured a new slate of worthy actors whose talents were overshadowed by a cumbersome plot, inexplicably long shots of Los Angeles highways and an unrelentingly somber tone.

A: As mentioned, it's without question the cumbersome plot about the Nine Realms aligning (which is creating all these very convenient portals) and this whole Aether nonsense that takes forever to get going and really makes little sense in the first place.

At Theatre West, on a pretty set by David Offner, Arden Teresa Lewis directs with a light hand, cutting back the original army of a cast to a not inconsiderable 18, playing up the funniest exchanges and marching as briskly as possible through the cumbersome plot (which even so begins to drag in the third hour).

"Kimmy Schmidt" encapsulated the term "uneven," with some episodes slipping into cumbersome side plots and containing one too many clunky jokes.

Lerner is attempting to capture something that most conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and scene and "conflict," fail to do: the drift of thought, the unmomentous passage of undramatic life.

The plotting is cumbersome.

Since the analytical computations are cumbersome we show here plots obtained by numerical means.

The project stalled when Shields came to find the conventional novelistic apparatus (plot, dialogue, character) cumbersome and irrelevant to his deepest concerns.