Sentence examples for manipulative plot from inspiring English sources

It needn't have pivoted on a final manipulative plot trick to make its impact felt.

At the two-thirds point, the movie makes a giant leap of faith with a far-fetched, manipulative plot twist that binds Henry and Dean together, whether they like it or not.

Experiments 2 and 3 were conducted at site I during the growing season of 2007 in a manipulative plot that is approximately 1,000 m south of the EC tower (Table 1).

These rom-coms are never really about exploring grief--they're just using it as a manipulative plot device.

There was the "The Fault in Our Stars," a teen drama about cancer that wrung actual emotions out of its manipulative plot by not being manipulative at all.

A non-manipulative plot, one that doesn't distort reality for the sake of neat narrative, exerts a beneficial pressure on the novelist, demanding that he or she consider a situation from multiple vantage points, see it more fully, and also weeds out much triviality by requiring the writer to choose situations that can sustain such considered analysis.

We also had Carrie Fisher as Rob's exuberantly unlikable mother, and the beginnings of dementia, and post-partum depression, and a dead dog: but all treated with humanity, not least when Sharon, serious for once and worried that she can't bond with her three-day-old daughter, frets over the fact the baby looks "manipulative, like it's plotting something".

Lard the soundtrack with manipulative incidental music that overpunctuates plot twists and swoons to the ad break.

So, despite my intense gladness about the Stark-sib unity, I also found myself thinking of the 1998 Matt Dillon Neve Campbell movie "Wild Things," whose plot included a manipulative twist so ridiculous it felt like flat-out cheating, and which has remained my standard for plot-revelation unfairness ever since.

I ultimately think it's too clever by half, a kind of manipulative little machine of a plot that feels like a Pixar short stretched to fill a feature runtime.

No longer an insecure 14-year-old swayed by gossip, suggestions of secret plots, and other manipulative tactics, the young emperor's weaknesses faded and his strength of character came to the fore.