Sentence examples for incidental plot from inspiring English sources

In Hollywood's imaginings, over the past decade, a black President is no longer a fantastical premise; it's an incidental plot point, a casting choice.

Costas's critics were outraged by the idea that guns were anything but an incidental plot element, as innocent as the flapping of butterfly wings.

It's a pick-up scene and quite incidental to the plot.

Anyone brought up on Hollywood or J Arthur Rank knew that such a strange purchase could hardly be incidental to the plot.

Stephen Dillane's brooding claimant Stannis Baratheon has something his rivals don't – a witch aide with hair extensions whose clothes keep falling off for reasons incidental to the plot but consistent with the franchise's dubious sexual politics.

Desirable people appear onscreen, and one is given to understand that at some point they have had or will have had relations, but their entanglements are incidental to the plot.

Of the 32 films in competition, the majority were from the West, most of them general entertainers – dramas, comedy, thrillers – where the characters' sexual orientation are incidental to the plot.

Doctor Who was commended for including gay character Captain Jack, whose sexuality is incidental to the plot and not the driving-force behind his actions, but the report highlighted that this was a rare portrayal of an LGBT character on television.

Mathilde has a love interest in the film, but he is incidental to the plot.

When it works, it fells incidental to the plot, yet essential to the overall tone.

Lately we've seen a surge in films featuring gay characters whose sexuality feels refreshingly incidental to the plot.