Sentence examples for disaster plot from inspiring English sources

Indeed, while a bleak disaster plot has its dramatic appeal, it can also numb its audience.

Their disaster plots and dialogue were B-grade at best; from an industry perspective, however, these were pictures firmly rooted in a tradition of star-stuffed extravaganzas.

The creator of ABC's "N.Y.P.D. Blue," Steven Bochco, refused to comment at all on post-disaster plot lines.

As an example, in the aftermath of the Haiti crisis, volunteers across the world cobbled together data from various sources including data from satellite maps and mobile companies along with information about health facilities from the maps of the World Health Organization, and police facilities from the Pacific Disaster Center and plotted them on open source platforms such as the OpenStreetMap.

And as in Carl Hiaasen's "Hoot," the threat of an impending environmental disaster moves the plot along.

Set in the wake of environmental disaster, the noirlike plot centers on Deckard (Alex Emanuel), who tracks down androids, tests their humanity with an empathy test and, if they fail, destroys them.

It came up with no less than 72 potential disaster scenarios, and plotted a response to each one.

Those gardeners who innocently add these botanical disciplinary problems to their yards not only court disaster on their own plot of land, but they can also wreak havoc elsewhere if seed is dispersed by wind, birds or other methods.

Paul Howlett Revolution Hugh Hudsonn, 1986) 12.50am, Sony Movie Channel Hudson's account of the American war of independence in 1776 was also an epic box-office disaster, much of the plot and coherence left hacked to bits on the cutting room floor.

One might wish that "The Widower's Tale" did more than just edge up to the nexus of serious issues — a blithe American affluence sustained by worldwide poverty, draconian immigration laws, the ever-present specter of environmental disaster — that drives its plot.

It is not worried, it says, with the types of disaster that have provided plots for science fiction.