Sentence examples for its basic plot from inspiring English sources
Mr. Greer says that the essence of the novel is something apart from its basic plot.
Along with its basic plot and accounts of numerous myths, the Mahabharata reveals the evolution of Hinduism and its relations with other religions during its composition.
But its basic plot is the one Australia's courts have decided is true: that the five were murdered by Indonesian soldiers.Few Indonesians have much time for Australian efforts to dig up this bit of their country's past.
The libretto by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan reduces the Marcel Pagnol novelistic and cinematic trilogy of Marseilles life ("Marius," "Fanny" and "Cesar") to its basic plot, which is still more than enough to float two acts of musical theater.
Its basic plot is: a down-on-his-luck literary translator, who also happens to be an amateur mad scientist, aims to take over the world by cloning an army's worth of Carlos Fuenteses, but he accidentally instead generates an army of enormous silk worms cloned from Carlos Fuentes's silk tie.
Essentially, The Bandstand is smooth entertainment as the description of its basic plot makes clear.
If this show is successful in convincing audiences of its most basic plot element, they will also be successful in convincing the American public that life must be pretty easy for trans women.
Despite its familiar title and basic plot, this recent stage adaptation by British playwright Jethro Compton takes strikingly different aim at the original Dorothy M. Johnson short story that inspired the classic John Ford film.
It becomes a hollow replica, the basic plot without its heart and soul.
William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer gave the film a B minus and wrote, "It's a decent enough stab at being what the old movie was to its time, following the same basic plot, full of respectful references to its model, updated with a gallery of fairly imaginative special effects".
Jedermann, like Everybody, follows the same basic plot as its source, Everyman.
