Sentence examples for plot machinery from inspiring English sources

So much plot machinery!

Having assembled the plot machinery for a sturdy thriller, Laken does none of the expected things.

Gerontology lends itself to the plot machinery, as Jean-Luc admits that he's just making money while ministering to the sagging skins of Versailles' aging rich.

Unlike the couple in the earlier book, who are chewed up by creaky plot machinery, Lisey and Scott are the story.

It's so enamored of its own upbeat view of human nature that it expects you to overlook its stick-figure characters, its creaky plot machinery and its remorseless assault on your tear ducts.

Ever since 1997's vast and fragmented Underworld, Don DeLillo's novels have been characterised by decreased length, the decommissioning of plot machinery and the steep deceleration of narrative time.

The plot-machinery is spurred arbitrarily into action by the formal introduction of a sporting event - the Tri-Wizard Cup - which discloses once again how weirdly old-fashioned Hogwarts is, with its Victor Ludorum ethos.

His camera moves among young bodies like an invisible friend, and his somewhat messy narrative is propelled by fidelity to feeling rather than by the machinery of plot.

He rarely allows the machinery of plot to distract him from the tangents of talk, and the first part of "Blue" is preoccupied with what seem to be extraneous, trivial arguments and conversations.

"Voyage" is not driven by the usual machinery of plot and exposition, but rather by a succession of moods, an emotional logic alternately reflected and obscured by the picturesque surroundings.

Nothing much happens — food is cooked, coffee is drunk, jokes are cracked, eyes are rolled — and the loose, vagabond rhythm makes "Your Sister's Sister" feel a bit like a French movie, immersed in personalities rather than driven by the machinery of plot.