Sentence examples for pages of plot from inspiring English sources

For Spierig, it was a plus that the story itself only contained a few pages of plot, but created a world that the filmmakers could draw upon to expand into a feature.

And, ultimately, for the hours of research and focussed thinking that form the raw material of most any creative endeavor — in Balzac's case, the endless pages of plot and character development — an extremely caffeinated approach may be productive, as long as the mind is allowed to wander every now and again.

Perhaps it is because novels are like affairs, and small novels – with fewer pages of plot to them – are affairs with less history, affairs that involved just a few glances across a dinner table or a single ride together, unspeaking, on a train, and therefore affairs still electric with potential, still heart-quickening, even after the passage of all these years.

And, ultimately, for the hours of research and focussed thinking that form the raw material of most any creative endeavor in Balzac's case, the endless pages of plot and character development—an extremely caffeinated approach may be productive, as long as the mind is allowed to wander every now and again.

It seems at times you get a few pages of plot and then a load of history.

With more than 500 pages of labyrinthine plot, a bewilderingly large cast and a timeline that spans almost 20 years, Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O Smith with Joseph Reeder (Little, Brown, £13.99), is not an easy read.

In what way does it tell so much more of a story than hundreds of pages of constructed plot?

The themes and topics of the chapters vary widely: as one reviewer describes, "You are also not subjected to 400-plus pages of intricate plot movement.

Likewise, the ending, after many pages of strong plotting and dense description, feels abrupt and leaves too many questions un-answered, even after a close reading.

PAGE A4 Charge of Plot to Kill a Judge A man accused of scheming to bilk investors of $100 million sought the murder of the Manhattan judge who kept him behind bars, an indictment charged.

PAGE A8 REPORT OF PLOT TO KILL PUTIN Russian television reported that the Ukrainian and Russian intelligence services had worked together to thwart an assassination attempt on the Russian prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin.