Sentence examples for unconvincing narrative from inspiring English sources

The unconvincing narrative doesn't allow Depp to shape a performance.

But the treasurer's take, in which spending is the only villain in the story and tax cuts the obvious hero, is increasingly at odds with the evidence, leaving the Turnbull government with an unconvincing narrative just a few weeks from its budget and a few months from the election campaign.

Gilbert and Sullivan's Pooh-Bah might dismiss this as "merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative".

"Giselle," she feels, is simply unconvincing as a narrative, at least in the traditional versions that she has frequently danced.

Scene by scene, we're gripped, but the metaphor is elusive, the narrative unconvincing and the overall effect vague and unpersuasive.

It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that he should accept a narrative which is so unconvincing, even for an effort in the lighter vein.

Otherwise, Scott says, the film has "enough dramatic incident for three movies, none of them terribly original," and it adds up to "a sprawl of narrative that is as unconvincing as the suspiciously sprawl-free, nostalgia-tinged town where it all takes place".

Wiese's tale was unconvincing.

Bramwell found Trevor "shallow and unconvincing", and felt that his eccentricities hurt the narrative and overshadowed Michael and Franklin's character development.

Jennings is not an elegant stylist, and if you didn't like "Aztec" you will probably dislike "Spangle" for the same reasons; it's heavy-handed, the eroticism is clumsy and often embarrassing, the dialogue is unconvincing, the violence is gratuitous, and the attempts at narrative excitement tend to be of the old "suddenly a shot rang out" variety.

Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell, however, felt that Trevor undermined the other characters because he was a "shallow and unconvincing" sensationalised anti-hero, and that "his antics derail[ed] the narrative" and overshadowed the character development of Michael and Franklin.