Sentence examples for tricky plot from inspiring English sources

The tricky plot locks them into purely functional responses.

They have saddled themselves with a tricky plot and it runs aground.

Panels of experts present a contradictory portrait, and his identity is the show's mystery, giving this tricky plot an engine.

It is his persistence, both as actor and character, that tides us over the tricky plot reversals.

In the delightfully tricky plot, a young woman he meets by chance asks him to impersonate the fiancé with whom she has just broken up and accompany her when she visits her family.

(Jeannette Catsoulis) 'BURN AFTER READING' (R, 1 36) A predictably self-amused comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen with a tricky plot, visual style, er, to burn, but so little heart as to warrant a Jarvik 8.

The impetus of a Doerr story is always a movement toward transcendence, and the process is what matters, not the vehicles: not the metaphors, not the tricky plots, not the local color, not the occasional bursts of melodrama.

The joys of this shrewdly playful narrative lie not only in the high-low darts and dives of Pessl's tricky plotting, but in her prose, which floats and runs as if by instinct, unpremeditated and unerring.

Some things you can expect from T. Jefferson Parker: tricky plots, driven heroes, runaway action and a gnawing sense that Southern California is going to hell in a hurry.

"The Ghost Writer," Harwood's first novel, is an echo chamber of spectral voices, some emanating from within his tricky, booby-trapped plot and some, more faintly, from without.

It's just that comic scenes in Sea of Poppies tend to coincide with tricky patches of plotting.