Sentence examples for silly plot from inspiring English sources

It is just a silly plot to mislead the international community to think there is a negotiation in place.

First, the Second Chechen War is reduced to a silly plot point to scoot our backstory along.

But Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen's script slides too easily into melodrama and silly plot devices, never allowing the promise of these characters to play out (1 15).

This is as batty as the job they are hired to do, in an earnest and silly plot that lacks tension.

It doesn't have silly plot twists like journalists turning up a really important piece of information – that doesn't happen at all.

The answer, for Sondheim, is dexterity: the unstinting sophistication of his wordplay and his flirtatious harmonies — forever hinting at the sweeping show tune, only to duck away into discord and off-key fretfulness — is a riposte to his silly plot.

Creaky, silly plots are part of the history of musical comedy.

And so Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek," despite the silly plots and the cardboard-seeming sets, persists in its many versions because it captures a deep and abiding divide.

They were like a favorite TV show that had gone all ridiculous, yet you stayed tuned, hoping that the silly plots would get better.

(Written scene titles continue to appear, but they now convey no essential information: if you ignored them, you could still follow the silly plots).

Because stilted prose and silly plotting notwithstanding, Rand's unrelentingly popular book has exerted a powerful ideological hold on the culture, an influence that has only intensified in recent years with the emergence of the Tea Party.