Sentence examples for no incidentals from inspiring English sources

Characters have no identity except what's constructed to fit the plot; situations offer no incidentals but merely exist to motivate the action; events occur not because they can (let alone might) but because they're required to reach the chosen conclusion.

With Gorky, influence is no incidental issue.

There is no incidental music to guide or soothe the audience's feelings and little respite from the enervation and anxiety that define Christine's world.

General Motors ought to sponsor a 24-hour a day horse race broadcast, containing no incidental music or other exasperating matter... View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb.

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Freddie's gift for brewing up moonshine out of anything to hand (paint-stripper, developing fluid, fruit, bread) and making himself the life and soul of the party is no incidental detail.

Is the target only art? Art was no incidental matter for Adolf Hitler, whose designs on the world, keyed to the rightful dominance of a purified master race, were aesthetic at their twisted root.

There is no incidental music; ambient noise is generally limited to cicadas and scenes and characters are shown largely in medium and long-shot, speaking evenly, and unemphatically framed and composed.

His introduction to his quiet wife, Elsie Salamon, a tobacco heiress — they met in London in 1899, at a party for his planned marriage to another woman — exhausts Secrest's account of romance in Duveen's life; and no incidental gossip embroiders that event.

But large numbers of highly desirable, migratory game fish including yellowtail and wahoo freely roam the surface layer in reserve waters, where they can be caught using techniques so unrelated to fishing for bottom-dwellers that there is no incidental by-catch of the threatened species at all.

There is no incidental music and little exposition, and Mr. Denis's clinical realism might in itself become oppressive if not for Ms. Testud's ferocious, frightening performance as Christine Papin, whose fanatical devotion to her younger sister Léa made her the primary actor in a bloody social tragedy (Scott).