Sentence examples for protracted sequence from inspiring English sources

There's a needlessly protracted sequence between the mother and a wounded cub that's pure filmmaker sadism and that, in its cutting and framing, makes it seem as if the mother is consciously cruel rather than following her instincts.

This was the scene in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in which Lawrence Peter O'Toolee) first makes contact with the Arab chieftain Sherif Ali Shariff), who will become his key ally in the desert fighting, and the latter, in a daringly protracted sequence, develops from a speck on the horizon into a towering, huge horseman, rifle at the ready.

That hardly seems reason for the yearning tone in a protracted sequence set 15 years later, when the two may cross paths again.

This pattern relies on a protracted sequence of developmental steps, whereby different cell types are born at specific time points and nerve connections are formed in a tightly controlled sequence that has to be coordinated among the different visual neuropils.

The film's nadir is a gruesomely protracted sequence that culminates in the graphic murders of three women, among them two indefensible black caricatures: a sassy "mammy" and a chicken-plucking "maid".

This protracted last sequence is conducted with a ferocity and kinetic energy that was not to be challenged until the opening, 15 years later, of The Wild Bunch by Kurosawa's great admirer, Sam Peckinpah.

Even after so many murders, love affairs, family disputes, disappointments and protracted dream sequences, he was a low-class thug with charm and mystery.

Unnecessary drama and protracted dance sequences?

Unfortunately, his explanation of skinhead hatred as mere insanity feels like a cop-out, and protracted stock-footage sequences strain to connect a wider view of British unrest to the intimate story.

And that protracted final sequence is quite extraordinary, in which the dying hero is instructed what to think and do, via a voice through an earpiece, while he stumbles through the wrecked stage-set of his self-created existence.

Officially, of course, the film is done and dusted – and it certainly lasts the standard two hours – but when you leave the cinema you feel as if you've seen nothing but a very protracted opening sequence.