Sentence examples for long flashback from inspiring English sources

There is also insufficient point, purpose and narrative clarity in the long flashback that follows.

In a long flashback, Wolitzer shows us how Faith arrived at her politics.

The first episode is a long flashback, which ends as a family photograph is taken.

* * * Tom had a long flashback to how he had once been married to Pip's mother.

A problem with his passport, on arrival, triggers a long flashback to his teen-age self.

Audley's experience as a mercenary in Croatia, laid out in another long flashback, is similarly broad and featureless.

These antics are interrupted by long flashbacks that reveal how the heartbroken mortals are connected, unbeknownst to anyone, including themselves.

Episodes begin with chaotic spectacles — the aftermath of a shooting, a car rolling and exploding during a high-speed chase — and then become long flashbacks.

It is both overwrought and tedious, its complicated narrative bogging down in lyrical voiceover, long flashbacks and endless expository conversations between people speaking radically incompatible accents.

His stories are full of digressions and long flashbacks; he circles around his plots for the longest time, as if he were doing reconnaissance on them before deciding to go in for the kill.

What exactly that was is left purposely vague, but the long flashbacks that pad out the movie's running time and vary its visual texture paint a picture that is neither pretty nor coherent.