Sentence examples for serves a plot from inspiring English sources

That anachronistic set design serves a plot purpose, though, when Mom sends over her undead darkness monster.

Since the actors serve a plot need rather than filling out characterization, the movie succeeds when the performers quickly communicate their functions.

From the bland Kahn to the implausibly dumb Moe (a family friend who is given the unenviable task of wringing laughs out of not knowing, for example, what April Fool's Day is) to all of King Cable's misshapen, socially awkward employees, everyone here seems vaguely miscast, as though dragooned to serve a plot they have neither a feel for nor any particular interest in.

At times, the funny Day veers on the shrill and frantic and the aw-shucks Sudeikis vacillates between being an affable guy to having a propensity for sex that seems to appear out of nowhere, except to serve a plot point.

A little like the movie "War Horse," which is more about the horse than about the war, this series isn't interested in using its main characters to explore the war's devastation and tectonic social shifts; combat serves as a plot point and palate cleanser in between voyeuristic looks at high society.

The relationship between the sisters and the Greater Fiend Doku, who cursed them, serves as a plot device to drive the game forward, with Rachel occasionally needing to be rescued by Ryu.

Magnani's hot-blooded histrionics are on full display in Ms. Gambacorta's 90-minute biographical sketch, and though they might have been entertaining when serving a movie plot, in a first-person narrative, they're ultimately wearing.

They make readers question our own society – political power, the twin threats of despotism and terrorism, mass communications, torture – but above all they're gripping, thrilling, hurtling stories in which the brilliant ideas serve a great plot and strong characters, rather than the other way around.

The "New Krypton" landmass floating in space at the end of Superman Returns would have served as a plot device.

He felt cheated, however, that Dexter was not forced to decide whether to kill Doakes, and was disappointed that Lila's character primarily served as a plot device.

Venus also likely has a definitively flatulent smell, NASA says, and Mars has a vague shit fume scent, too, which, strangely, has yet to serve as a plot point in any of the many, many, many movies about the Red Planet.