Sentence examples for devoid of plot from inspiring English sources

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For all the uncertainty that accompanied Santana's every move, his time in camp has been devoid of plot twists.

It is a book almost entirely devoid of plot: Nechhi occasionally details trips into the city to score heroin, recollects his childhood in Glasgow, or talks of his attempts to write a book.

One could argue futility is the point, that a book, devoid of plot, exploring jealousy, should inevitably lead us down a dead end, thus imitating its inventory of defunct affairs and fruitless emotions.

"Pina" is a documentary, devoid of plot, narration, and chronological structure, yet it is crammed to bursting with these short stories character studies that jump out of nowhere, explode into action, then stop.

"Pina" is a documentary, devoid of plot, narration, and chronological structure, yet it is crammed to bursting with these short stories — character studies that jump out of nowhere, explode into action, then stop.

But at least Disney based its movie on a classic sci-fi book series from author Edgar Rice Burroughs, not a board game devoid of plot or characters.

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But, in contrast to the green and sinister England of Ruth Rendell, Patrick McGrath or Ian McEwan, this is a place where foreboding never surges into tangible threat: the woodshed is apparently devoid of plot-lubricating surprises, and there's little nastiness except the heartbreaking death of a minor character and some standard pre-feminist marital abuse.

It's devoid of much plot and deceivingly simple.

Mosley's prose here seems affectless, the book apparently devoid of a plot.

The result is efficient but uncanny, as the video seems devoid of any rational plot, unless you count that rapidly approaching swarm of crows of the Apocalypse descending on Earth to destroy us.

Working like his research-oriented contemporaries, Méliès never stopped experimenting with his work, directing more than 530 films between 1896 and 1914, ranging in length from one to forty minutes, many of them devoid of a traditional plot structure and revolving almost entirely around developing a specific special effect technique.

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