Sentence examples for summarize the plot from inspiring English sources

(A general rule about Stoppard may be stated thus: The shorter the play, the harder it is to summarize the plot without sounding unhinged).

(The latter of these two, of course, is also a runner-up in our future contest "Summarize the plot of 'Avatar.' ") But many participants interpreted the challenge differently, and decided to tweet as the earth itself.

Malick's very idea of character and action is as radical as his vision and, for that matter, as his philosophy, and that comes through in even the barest attempt to summarize the plot.

I won't summarize the plot again (suffice it to say that it's about a married suburban family man whose home life is overturned by the arrival of a girlfriend from his past); I introduced the movie and talked with some of the viewers afterwards, and the discussions centered on the cultural context in which Sirk, a German immigrant, locates the story.

It is impossible to summarize the plot of so byzantine an opera in a sentence or two: suffice to say that it succeeds in making a plausible evening's entertainment out of the seventeenth-century split between the Old Believers sect of the Russian Orthodox Church and the modernizing forces of Peter the Great.

It is rabid with deception, and all attempts to summarize the plot tend to skip one of the changes of costume, or of heart; not until I saw the film again recently, perhaps for the tenth time, did I notice that Jack Lemmon turns briefly into a bellhop.

The books came along a little too fast for her, so she asked her employer to read them and summarize the plots so she could discuss them with Ed.

The title neatly summarizes the plot.

Some projected video sequences included sentences briefly summarizing the plot of "Swan Lake".

She praised Tahji Gadson, a fourth grader, for defining "belligerent" as "angry" and then succinctly summarizing the plot.

The review summarized the plot incompletely; although Edie and Lana drive off into the sunset, they change their minds and return home.