Sentence examples for mechanical plot from inspiring English sources

It's a mechanical plot and Mitchell is drawn to mechanisation.

The mechanical plot includes the implausible and the inevitable, in equal doses.

It's also one of endless coming and going, as in the Roman comedy of Plautus where Shakespeare found his mechanical plot.

This would be, Mr. Gilligan added, "a very mechanical plot development that would force Walt to be guilty and second-guess his decision to become a drug dealer".

It is painful to see a writer previously at the top of his powers lose faith in his own material, falling back on mechanical plot tricks and committing basic errors of craft.

The 90s saw the rise of the celebrity novelist, and Hilary Winshaw, Michael's mournful editor tells him, has got in on the act with 'the usual sort of rubbish… Cheap tricks, mechanical plot, lousy dialogue, could have been written by a computer.

Even when the mechanical plotting turns chaotic, it's a very orderly mess.

"Sons of Anarchy," FX: I still watch, mainly for the fine cast, but as I wrote recently here, I wish the show would get out of its way more often and not let mechanical plots get in the way of clarity, character depth and emotional trajectories.

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia physics and mathematics professor Paul Halpern discusses the episode in his book What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe, and quotes Homer's admonition to Lisa Lisasa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" at the beginning of Halpern's section on "Mechanical Plots".

When mechanical, contrived plot turns started piling up, the show began to remind me of the unsatisfying later seasons of "Sons of Anarchy," which often wasted its great cast on meaningless excursions and nonsensical complications.

PSTHs were plotted from trains of alternating innocuous (7 g) and noxious (65 g) mechanical stimuli, plotting total activity (spikes/s) generated by 20 × 5 s stimulations.