Sentence examples for the plot advances from inspiring English sources

The plot advances through a series of crisply shot and edited set pieces, including several in which the cops study, then imitate the bad guys.

The convoluted plot advances in slow, circuitous steps, and seemingly stock characters -- an unreliable nephew, a cool drug lord, a corrupt union boss -- grow more layered and intriguing as the story unfolds.

— the scant plot advances at a glacial pace.

Tim Burton's stylish but empty 2001 Planet remake somehow lost the thematic plot; advanced prosthetics enabled the ape actors to move their mouths only to discover that they had little of substance to say.

When word reached London and the necessary forces dispatched, the race was on: Gordon ekeing out the rations to his motley crew of beleaguered supporters, the Mahdi plotting advances and the British fighting their way in, hoping to snatch their man from the jaws of everlasting fame and a Charlton Heston biopic.

Mr. Shelby said the failure to penetrate the plot in advance constitutes "an intelligence failure".

The two given the longest sentences, 12 and 17 years, were found guilty of knowing about the plot in advance.

Limping along while telegraphing the plot in advance might sound like a neat trick, but it isn't.

The plot never advanced beyond the conceptual stage, and the planning sessions, some of which were recorded by a confidential informant, were alternately grandiose and absurd.

The screenplay by the longtime Merchant Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala gamely tries to camouflage reams of exposition necessary for the plot to advance smoothly.

The Green Archer of the title is a mysterious masked figure who materializes whenever Holland needs a hand or the plot needs advancing, popping up to pump arrows into bad guys or deliver crucial clues.