Sentence examples for plot stands from inspiring English sources

One two-acre plot stands apart from the rest, its flavour and nicotine content are irrelevant.

As can happen with Minnelli, the plot stands deftly aside, like a maître d', to let the visual miracles make their entrance, and why not?

Depending on your precise definitions, there are three or four dei ex machina and half-a-dozen spontaneous benevolent gifts upon which the plot stands – thus, a model of tight storytelling virtue it ain't.

However, through some uncommonly persuasive acting and skillful direction the patently artificial plot stands up surprisingly well.Being the story of a wife who committed an indiscretion while her husband was overseas and sincerely regrets the transgression, the opportunities when the film easily could have slithered into slobbering sentimentality are many.

It's got plenty of action and characterisation and the star gives his best acting performance to date... (the) Incidents and characters of the original novel are distorted, but the plot stands up well and the dialog is salty and emotion-packed.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars and noted that the film had "taken its title so seriously that the plot stands still along with it", but also stated that it was "an expensive, good-looking film that is well-made by Scott Derrickson".

For each plot stand density was determined as the actual number of trees ha-1.

Some picaresque plotting stands in for the dark intrigue and soon Edward's life is in danger.

"The reason that these books have lasted and that so many people still read or try to emulate them today is because the plots stand up.

She said that those who dared to disagree with Mr. Schuppert had been threatened with the loss of their plots, and that Mr. Schuppert had alternately let perfectly good plots stand empty and assigned plots to favored friends — skipping the waiting list, which is now about 75 spots long.

The characters and relationships feel recycled, and the writing is inert; plot activity stands in for a pulse.