Sentence examples for to move the plot along from inspiring English sources

The twins may be psychic, but this sensational aspect of their personalities is never fully explored, functioning more as a device to move the plot along toward the prophesied doomsday.

Destiny or fate (sud'ba in Russian) is a convenient excuse for all kinds of bad behaviour (especially adultery in this novel); and it is also an excellent way to move the plot along, particularly when your hero is banished 700 miles from Moscow and his mistress just happens to end up in exactly the same spot.

Mr. Jacobs also had to move the plot along.

Some of Angie's actions are puzzling and seem to exist only to move the plot along.

They're there to perform a number of fairly basic functions: to help keep the audience on board and to move the plot along.

Arbace: I'm the not-very-good singer / Who comes on stage to move the plot along / And lo! Neptune has killed your dad, Idomeneo.

They not only move the plot along but allow us a glimpse of the characters' inner lives.

So, for example, they are plot devices; they are catalysts; they are means of reflecting particular aspects or features of a hearing character; they move the plot along, but they're not developed in their own right".

They move the plot along, never wholly transcending their silly roots but never slowing things down either (no mean feat in a swift story like this).

In the interest of moving the plot along, he skirts subjects fiercely argued over for years by those obsessed with the Donner party.

Really listen to the songs and how they are used to convey messages and move the plot along.