Sentence examples for laborious plot from inspiring English sources

Also, the show's clumsy mix of long bursts of theory and a laborious plot would test the endurance of even Alan Greenspan, a famous Rand admirer and veteran of long, boring meetings.

It is shackled to its muddled and laborious plot variants and dialogue quotes from the original, and also to a concept that I think was always sentimental and wrong-headed: the idea of Arnie's Terminator turning into a good guy, and now aged into a cutesy-grumpy old retainer.

In his first significant opera, Les pêcheurs de perles, Bizet was hampered by a dull libretto and a laborious plot; nevertheless, the music in Dean's view rises at times "far above the level of contemporary French opera".

Perhaps predictably, the New York Times hated the play when it premiered off-Broadway in 2010, concluding that, "the show's clumsy mix of long bursts of theory and a laborious plot would test the endurance of even Alan Greenspan, a famous Rand admirer and veteran of long, boring meetings".

It's laborious to plot out things; when you get that idea you tend to rush ahead too rapidly and you force the ending.

Competently filmed by director Steve Race and cinematographer Keith J. Duggan, "I'm in Love With a Church Girl" otherwise suffers from the same ills as too many movies that preach to the choir: a laborious length, formulaic plot and dialogue and, disappointing for a film that stars a rapper, a stock score.

The most interesting thing in the movie (and the word "interesting" is generally a term of disdain) is the thematic overlap between the director's laborious self-presentation and the plot of the movie.

These findings suggest that laborious hand weeding of trenched plot vegetation may be replaced by other methods, facilitating future studies of this large and poorly-understood carbon flux.

Once I got the sense that every "Arrested Development" episode was largely a laborious device meant to connect one set of plot points to another set of plot points, it was hard to feel engaged by anything that transpired among the human beings on the screen.

If so, the chance has come earlier than many had anticipated, the 2000 Olympic gold medallist having plotted such a convoluted and laborious course to the top it has often felt like his scheme was to establish his hegemony sometime in 2042, possibly by defeating an octogenarian Evander Holyfield after an eliminator against the ashes of George Foreman.

The final sting in the tail, ushered in with laborious black-and-white flashbacks, is a noir plot standard, and all too obviously guessable.