Sentence examples for patchy plot from inspiring English sources

When Troy was released in 2004, the cinemagoing public was treated to an attractive array of flesh and sandals, distracting nicely from a patchy plot and acting more wooden than the set's biggest prop.

Chanter is also a poet, and the novel's greatest power is not its patchy plot but its lyrical language: this unsettling tale about the mind in turmoil is awash with imagery of water as Chanter explores the sense of identity as fluid, truth a slippery thing, certainties dissolving.

The patchy plot of cartoonish Cold War skulduggery involves a couple of secret agents with the Hollywood monickers of Siegel and Widmark (played by the French New Wave icons Jean-Pierre Léaud and László Szabó), a novelist named after the noir writer David Goodis (Yves Afonso, a Jean-Paul Belmondo look-alike), and two young Cahiers du Cinéma critics playing Richard Nixon and Robert McNamara.

Anna Jordan's play has zinging, idiomatic dialogue but patchy plotting.

After a year these plots had changed from low density, only slightly patchy plots to very structured, high density plots.

Many are "fixing" nitrogen into the soil as well, providing fertilizer for the crops that are thriving in this once-patchy plot.

Despite being on the Booker shortlist, the US novelist's prose is a little patchy and the plot is at times almost operatic in its hysteria.

One potential complication of conventional breeding for improved nutrient acquisition is that nutrient deficiencies tend to be patchy across field plots.

The partnership between Storm King and Governors Island is curious, yoking 500 acres of rolling, manicured hills to a much smaller plot of patchy lawns and decrepit buildings.

The total density of breeding forest birds decreased in the plots with "Complete" removal of the understory compared to plots with "Patchy" clearance.

"Reparation" raises thoughtful questions but, rather like that cemetery with its broken markers, Mr. DiIorio's patchy two-act play is strewn with plot fragments that do not always fit together.