Sentence examples for flimsy narrative from inspiring English sources

They power along the flimsy narrative.

One caution: when flimsy narrative superstructure begins to sag, anarchic wackiness can grow wearing.

Typically, though, their scripts were compilations of quotations and anecdotes, many of which might be culled from a Wikipedia entry, bent into flimsy narrative arcs.

It's a flimsy narrative that glosses over the real question of what that leadership might look like, as well as whether and when intervention is necessary.

Pointless musical interludes are peppered throughout, perhaps to bulk out the flimsy narrative (though the film runs a scant 87 minutes, audiences are unlikely to be begging for more).

This is another exercise in slightly fey Cirque fantasizing, full of conventional circus acts mixed with generic choreography and bent to a flimsy narrative concept, accompanied by the sort of music mimes would make if mimes made music.

Thomas accepted these often flimsy narratives as a form of apology; in his limited experience, beautiful women did not generally feel obliged to make excuses.

In Japan the busy animation industry allied visual fireworks to flimsy narratives in the futuristic adventures Sama wozu (2009; Summer Wars; Mamoru Hosoda) and Redline (2009; Takeshi Koike).

Which, honestly, is a pretty flimsy story.

For this fiction film about Irish travelers, the British photographer Perry Ogden weds the visual and rhetorical strategies of the observational documentary to the flimsiest of narrative conceits.

Little more than a showcase for Mr. Quint — whose acting is almost as toneless as his playing is sublime — this trite, sunny drama pins lengthy musical interludes onto the flimsiest of narratives and hopes for the best.