Sentence examples for historical plot from inspiring English sources

He is caught and questioned by an official (Mr. Hart) who functions less as a foil than as a way to kick-start the historical plot.

Another fictional story unfolds within this historical plot, as the jester grows up and falls in love, carrying on her own life in the shadow of the queen's.

But this historical plot echoes with the disparities of our own age — the new enclosures brought about by merciless globalization and the widening chasm between the mega-wealthy and the dispossessed.

"The Golden Land" has a lot of historical plot to condense as it chugs through a two-hour rendition of the entire New York Jewish immigrant experience, from the 1880s to the 1940s.

Because his moral theme is universal, and because his historical "plot" involves a world war, Herodotus is trying to give you a picture of the world entire, of how everything in it is, essentially, linked.

For Perl, considering the modern in what may seem "anti-modernist" terms, rescuing Calder is a way of rescuing the individual imagination from a reading of modern art too narrowly driven by a historical plot.

Shakespeare stole most of his historical plots directly from Holinshed.

No longer hungry for the angst-ridden confessional, editors are ravenous for historical plots, preferably set in exotic locations.

These historical plots were located as accurately as possible and resampled in 2004 to document multi-decadal changes in never-harvested Southwestern forests.

For detection of trends in the composition of the woodland over the last 40 years, historical plots situated within a radius of 1 km of recent plots were selected.

The historical plots were randomly clustered in groups of four and at a maximum distance of 500 m of the central sample point.