Sentence examples for taut plot from inspiring English sources
The action in "Casa Rossa" is briskly paced, with taut plot lines offering just enough dramatic tension to support the well-drawn characters in style.
The novel, published by Bloomsbury USA, explores the moral complexity and psychological fallout of clandestine service, through a taut plot involving two case officers who meet after bungled foreign assignments a few years apart.
Gone Girl is one of those books that seems to perfectly mix fine writing, a taut plot that keeps viewers hooked from the first page and – to please the ailing publishing industry – resulting sales that are measured in millions.
With warm, gleaming, gem-like sentences, Woodson captures the rare treasures of girlhood friendships, but the book contends with so much else, and the taut plot balloons with tension as August grows to understand a tragic realization about her family, one that will shape her for decades after.
Forget taut plotting and memorable characters, though: where Resistance 2 soars is in its playability and the amount of action packed in is seriously impressive.
I admire the control and simplicity of the structure and the lyrical freedom of the writing, and the taut plotting, so that what seems to be fairly random actually drives the book straight towards the savage conclusion, which with its inevitable bloody end is like a Greek tragedy.
They preferred tighter story lines and tauter plots, and took books to task which they felt were a series of short stories rather than a coherent whole.
But even as the taut puzzle plot of the traditional mystery shrinks in importance and the character of the hero gains ground, readers keep sighing for the ideal balance to be struck.
Instead, we have a taut, tense, plot-heavy cop drama.
Cities of the Plain is unusually taut and plotted for McCarthy, full of suspense.
Mr. Gores followed up with "Dead Skip" (1972), the first in a series of taut, ingeniously plotted stories about Daniel Kearney Associates, a detective agency whose main business is repossessing cars, a job Mr. Gores once held.
