Sentence examples for role of plot from inspiring English sources

They cannot fail to transmit mixed messages about, among other things, the role of plot in fiction; they imply that plot is the only important aspect of the novel (after all, it's the only thing in the review) and that, paradoxically, plot has absolutely no significance, since it's not supposed to matter if we know the whole story from the outset.

Relegated to the role of plot passenger, her redundant presence as an audience for the painting Proudlock produces renders her ineffectual and inert.

In addition, Stegall praised Olivia's dream sequence and subsequent accusation of Walter, the inclusion of Massive Dynamic as allies, Broyles' role as "support" rather than "the usual role of Plot Obstacle," and the science behind the episode ("The very fact that we can have two different yet legitimate quantum physics explanations on a television drama is, in itself, cause for applause").

Ideally, the role of the plot on "Orphan Black" is to serve as the background machinery that unites various combinations of these characters for reasons I can at least halfway understand.

Actresses appeared as men in male roles because of plot devices as early as 1914 in A Florida Enchantment featuring Edith Storey.

A slightly more advanced method is the split-plot ANOVA (Utz and Melchinger 1996; Utz et al. 2000), in which each genotype is considered to be a main plot, and observations from different environments play the role of split-plots.

Nevertheless, forest structure plays a significant role in the impact of plot size on model accuracy, with different optimum sizes found for tropical and temperate coniferous forests [15, 16].

McGregor admitted: "I found reading it quite difficult," when taking on the role of Othello's plotting enemy Iago in the Donmar's 2007 production, while Ogilvy conceded that he had no time for Shakespeare.

Most obviously, his dialogues are dramas with several formal features in common with much tragedy and comedy (for example, the use of authorial irony, the importance of plot, setting, the role of individual character and the interplay between dramatis personae).

Michelle Phillips Buchberger discusses these endings as a demonstration of "Fowles's rejection of a narrow mimesis" of reality; rather Fowles presents this multiplicity of endings to highlight the role of the author in plot choices.

Their agents got Abu Zubaydah talking without the use of force, and he revealed the central role of Mr. Mohammed in the 9/11 plot.