Sentence examples for sly plot from inspiring English sources
-- generates a sly plot twist; and Cecelia ("Snow Angel"), a pill-popping princess-by-marriage, who may or may not have murdered her best friend.
In this first episode, Proudlock – previously cast as a sly, plotting (if affable) lothario – reveals a new side to himself.
Vladimir Nabokov said he spent a long time working out the list (he called it a poem) of Lolita's classmates in his famous novel; the names reflect the flavor of suburban America in the 1950s and give sly clues to the plot as well.
Those fifties movies delighted in depicting something that is lost in this twenty-first century world - "hanky-panky" - a kind of comedy or sexual errors which advanced the plot with sly laughter in stylish clothes - as opposed to full frontal nudity and heavy breathing that stops a story dead in its tracks.
The comedy at times has a sly, sharp edge, but the plot, steering the wayward characters toward improbable redemption, feels deterministic, even punitive in the end.
The plot showcases Burdett's sly riffs on Third World stereotypes, Buddhism, and the gustatory pleasures of fried grasshoppers.
Hopeful yet darkly romantic, sensual yet pure, a love story is afoot in animator Joseph Blanc's piece but don't let that distract you from some dark, ominous plot development featuring a sly and dangerous fox.
No, the joy was in reading and rereading Adams's prose: the sly delight in word- and plot-play, the perfect ear, the serendipity of onomatopoeia in the English language and the careful fusion of apparently randomly loopy scenarios with insight and a Point.
The plot also sets up a sly dichotomy -- a daughter seemingly in control of her memory versus a mother who is not.
And it is Ms. Rapace's fierce and sly performance, more than the themes or the plot, that sustains "The Girl Who Played With Fire".
