Sentence examples for tortuous plot from inspiring English sources
The change of focus from the domestic to the political sphere produced a play of inordinate length and a tortuous plot.
The opera in question was Wagner's Tannhäuser, which lasts several hours, has a tortuous plot, a misty Middle Ages setting and a tragic end.
For while Mr. Malkovich's production features some full-blooded and witty acting in the supporting roles, the leads fail to imbue their characters with the cruel magnetism that is so crucial to animating the play's tortuous plot.
The novel's two books of 'Poverty' and 'Riches' begin in Marseille prison but move quickly to the Marshalsea - Victorian London's notorious debtors' prison, which once housed Dickens's father John and provides the symbolic backdrop for the novel's tortuous plot.
Unlike the English-language soaps, which can last generations, telenovelas typically wrap up their tortuous plot lines in less than a year and thus offer a beginning, middle and end.
The tortuous plot — involving sadomasochistic clubs, fringe sects, and assassins — hinges on the historical figure of Enrico Mattei, an Italian industrialist who died in a plane crash in 1962 under suspicious circumstances.
Some needed a little more editorial discipline in order to reign in their enthusiasm for lengthy footnotes or tortuous sub-plots.
The plot becomes tortuous, involving pirates and the kidnapping of the king's sons, but ends surprisingly in a song in praise of love sung by two young men.
Among those "narrow, tortuous residential roads serving precipitous house-plots that often back up directly on unimproved wilderness" is "the fat life of the delectable mountains".
In other words, Mr. Burke's plot is as thick and tortuous as a Louisiana swamp, and while there is certainly nothing wrong with that, some matters, like motivation and the trail of evidence, seem at times to disappear in the murk.
Indeed, these days, I only ever watch EastEnders at this wonderful time of year, tuning back in every December to follow the tortuous, month-long build-up to the great plot unwrapping.
