Sentence examples for plot mechanisms from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
She is beautifully played by Regina King, in one of several fine performances that almost drown the occasional creaking of the plot mechanism.
For that matter, even the characters have no perspective — their personal conflicts are pinned with an index-card precision to the plot mechanism and they're given no density, no fantasy, no life outside that mechanism.
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.
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.
