Sentence examples for peculiar plot from inspiring English sources

So the ability to sustain the colony's power sources becomes one more peculiar plot point in a book that does have its share of original twists.

In his great novels of the 1860s, Collins invented a series of narrative tricks and peculiar plot elements that thriller writers still draw on.

Although the story may sound a little gimmicky in the summarizing, Doerr's terse, serene prose gives the peculiar plot an air of inevitability, a sense that things are happening just as they were meant to.

Although this peculiar plot, adapted from a novel by M. L. Stedman, bears traces of Shakespearean romance, Cianfrance grounds the action firmly in the emotional wranglings of his central couple.

The self and the earth — your thoughts, your feelings, Your beliefs and disbeliefs, your whole peculiar plot… ("An Old Man Asleep") Claire has translated the third line of Stevens's poem as: Le moi et la terre — tes pensées, tes sentiments — and I'm surprised that moi = self.

And, yes, Kingsley's The Mandarin is the focus of a peculiar plot point that brings with it a unique interpretation of the character.

A peculiar sub-plot, in which Stephen's friend, a Thatcherite MP, regresses into childhood, is thematically related, but can hardly match up to the story of love numbed by the loss of a child.

While preparations for her party are underway, a villain called the Peculiar Purple Pieman plots to steal the berries from Strawberry's home in order to make his pies.

And simply to take the plot seems peculiar when what makes Austen so great is the voice, the insight, the feeling for humanity (this is doubly true for Northanger Abbey, which may be her funniest novel, but in plot terms isn't the most watertight).

Judy's indulgent and spaced-out Aunt Opal is a peculiar addition to the plot.

That all these plot points are peculiar and obscure is part of the point.