Sentence examples for tiresome plot from inspiring English sources

Beyond its abundant charms, "Un Lun Dun" never misses an opportunity to undermine the tiresome plot devices and tedious moralizing of traditional fantasy.

The tiresome plot machinations and witless punch lines in this latest piece, a collaboration with the book writer and co-lyricist Lee Kalcheim (and a few contributions from Mr. Kalcheim's son Samuel, a college student), seem to have been dusted off from well before that.

The review stated most audiences "will find it tiresome in plot and in treatment in fact, some of the action and dialogue may provoke laughs, instead of serious response".

It's a tiresome old hat plot that relies on pointing out how hopeless a husband is without his wife around the house.

Her latest novel, "The Sweetest Dream," is the biggest hodgepodge of styles, themes and characters yet: a novel whose moments of brilliance are obscured by reams of tiresome exposition, hokey plot twists and astonishingly opaque characters.

This tiresome, garbled and inert plot is not much helped by the comedy presence of comedy dwarves, played by Nick Frost, Rob Brydon, Sheridan Smith and Alexandra Roach – another prodigal waste of talent.

When confronted with criticism, some Iranian leaders have used the tiresome explanation that a plot backed by the West is the cause of Sunni animosity.

For Bay, trifles such as plot and characterisation are tiresome.

Fans of the genre are more apt to appreciate the devilishness of such plot details than the tiresome, vaguely flawed character development that comes with them.

6 15 P.M. (HBO Signature) BEING JULIA (2004) In Istvan Szabo's adaptation of the novel "Theatre" by W. Somerset Maugham, Annette Bening, in an Oscar-nominated role, stars as a tiresome diva in prewar London who plots revenge against a younger, American former lover (Shaun Evans).

The amateur silliness of "Tano da morire" ("To Die for Tano"), a low-budget musicial with a Mafia plot from Italy, was especially tiresome.