Sentence examples for patchy story from inspiring English sources
And each new awakening — at a meeting he doesn't recall arranging, with a girlfriend who is a stranger, on a plane headed for an unknown destination — gives a jump-start to the book's patchy story.
There's a West Side Story liveliness to some early scenes, after which the patchy story plods messily towards a projected showdown with Cheung Tin-chi (played by Zhang Jin, who had an eye-catching role in Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster), who challenges Ip to prove which of them is the true master of Wing Chun.
The Prince of Tides, published in 1986, secured Conroy a wide audience, selling more than 5m copies despite patchy reviews for its story of a former football player from South Carolina with a traumatic past and the New York psychiatrist who attempts to help him.
Here the story is more patchy.
That's something that's understood for male characters (it's a large part of Chief's story), but still patchy for female characters.
Her bibliography is patchy despite its slightness – 27 stories and one novel – and yet a handful of her stories rank among the best in American literature, fired by a voice and quality of insightfulness that no other writer shares.
Nathan — who is also twenty-one, with a patchy beard — recognized Chapman from news stories about American volunteers fighting in Syria and asked for advice.
Some of this story is told in a patchy but useful book by Herbert Inhaber, Why Energy Conservation Fails (Quorum, 1997).
The government's decision to allow police forces to recoup the cost of enforcement through fines has led to a huge increase in penalties (see chart).But the real story is that enforcement is extremely patchy.
Berlioz was born into an energetic, patchy, philistine musical environment, and some of the best stories in the book are about his single-handed attempts to restore standards.
