Sentence examples for stock plot from inspiring English sources

"Maryam" intermingles stock news film clips from 1979 with stock plot elements.

The lazy, formulaic screenplay settles for types and stock plot mechanics that gloss over dramatic situations without developing them.

Bernard MacLaverty's The Anatomy School (Cape, £15.99) takes a stock plot of Irish fiction, the Catholic boyhood, but finds fresh jokes, images and twists.

Another stock plot device in the 1970s was the gay character in a police drama.

Its first issue featured Wonder Woman on its cover marching in a parade with female comic characters, protesting stock plots.

A good example, Mr. Kianpoor said, is a chart of Priceline.com's stock plotted with the recommendations of the research department at Goldman , Sachs

Menander's plays are mainly known through the works of the Roman dramatists Plautus and Terence, who translated and adapted them, along with other stock plots and characters of Greek New Comedy, for the Roman stage.

In these stories' stock plots, men are allowed to live with women only on terms of equality, and, for that to happen, there has to be a way for the men and women to have sex without the women getting pregnant all the time.

And not only have we learned to talk and act like celebrities, but we have absorbed the stupidity of their stock plots, in which a happy ending like the Obama Rally stays happy after the credits roll nothing changes or gets complicated or ugly, it's just over over, goddamnit, like in the movies!

We used small scale, highly stocked plots to compress the length of the rotation and rapidly induce nutrient depletion.

In June, national security officials cited the stock exchange plot as an example of how government surveillance had successfully disrupted "potential terrorist events".