Sentence examples for plot mechanism from inspiring English sources

In previous interviews Allen has resisted any autobiographical interpretation to this, calling it a useful plot mechanism.

But this of course is the driving plot mechanism of pretty much all the Mission: Impossible films.

She is beautifully played by Regina King, in one of several fine performances that almost drown the occasional creaking of the plot mechanism.

As the career of the late A. E. van Vogt demonstrated, readers will accept the most unlikely plot mechanism as long as they sense they are in good hands.

Like other recent productions of this opera, but more intently, this version exposes the plot mechanism involving partner swapping for the cynical gesture it is, while unleashing the torrent of genuine emotions the scheme provokes.

The ninety-minute length (or its modern variety, the two-hour version, which includes more backstory) is constructed on the artifice of a plot mechanism that brings lots of plot threads together in an accelerating dénouement.

Much of the plot mechanisms from "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" remain in place for "Untold Scandal".

The heart of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, its emotional touchstone, and one of its central plot mechanisms, is a lost child.

The easy laugh, the insistent cleverness of the plot mechanisms — the very qualities that delighted prewar Broadway — may explain why today, with the well-made play a thing of the past, Kaufman's work seems for the most part so bloodless and predictable.

The front-loaded backstory of "Fantastic Four" isn't, in itself, a problem of dramatic construction; it's a fundamental mode of experience, albeit one that's repeatedly undercut by the distracting antics of the movie's bureaucratic villain and the needless plot mechanisms that come in his wake.

His best novels – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – have his best plots, mechanisms of great complexity and precision.