Sentence examples for unfold the plot from inspiring English sources
But it also determines what will unfold – the plot.
To unfold the plot is to spoil it; suffice it to say that some men kill without meaning to, and that others don't kill but might as well have done so, or wish they had.
In the first scene of the play, Sophocles presents the basic social and historical axes around which he will unfold the plot.
For example, you might know about the ending precisely because the author begins at the end and then unfolds the plot as to how the story reaches that ending (a reverse chronology).
Plot, on the other hand, can be thought of as the logic that links the events that unfold through the plot and make them emotionally powerful.
The TV screenwriter who turned to writing children's books unfolds the bizarre plot with just the right timing.
These are novels – Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time cycle comes to mind – in which the protagonists have a mystical destiny, foreshadowed in visions and ancient writings, and the unfolding of the plot tells of their march toward that destiny.
The unfolding of the plot after this is batty but believable, and it was a welcome breather to spend a little less time trying to catch every squint, every meaningful — or not — expression in Givens's hat-shaded eyes.
Nominally directed by Frank Urson, though said to be largely the work of its producer, Cecil B. DeMille, it's a film in which each small detail (the brand of a pocket watch, for example) seems to contribute to the unfolding of the plot, and every scene has its place in a rigorous, unbroken chain of cause and effect.
In the long since darkened green of the Polo Grounds, which the author brightly illuminates, we witness the unfolding of the plot against a backdrop of improbably mounting prowess (of the Giants' 28 home games remaining after the sign stealing began, they won 23).
While the topics addressed in the film were in every way worthy of being placed in the film, the unfolding of the plot didn't seem to fit well with the film.
