Sentence examples for unnecessary subplot from inspiring English sources

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In an unnecessary subplot intended to underline their weaknesses, both father and son avail themselves of the charms of a former cheerleader (Heather Graham).

Meanwhile, in the completely unnecessary subplot, Puck needs to pass his European geography test to graduate.

Hill and Giler did add some substantial elements to the story, however, including the android character Ash which O'Bannon felt was an unnecessary subplot, but which Shusett later described as "one of the best things in the movie...That whole idea and scenario was theirs".

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There is too much to be absorbed in too little time and not enough tissue connecting abbreviated, sometimes unnecessary subplots.

"Every Day" has unnecessary subplots and too many gimmicky passages, though a few mini­dramas within the grand one achieve a very real poignancy.

Test audiences might have told Mr. Pollack his pacing was slow, a subplot unnecessary -- things studio executives often can't communicate to filmmakers.

But the procedural aspect is continually diminished to make room for a number of baggy subplots: unnecessary moving parts like an alcoholic mother, a jailed father, an adoption, an office flirtation and a new Eastern European girlfriend, each of which gets an allotment of screen time.

First, you'd have to pad out the story with all sorts of superfluous bumf like romantic subplots and unnecessary flashbacks.

Both have subplots that are unnecessary (one is superfluous and the other is absolutely bonkers).

Lehane laces his narrative with melodrama — two brothers in love with the same woman, who harbors a secret past; a viciously racist cop out to destroy Luther and frame the burgeoning N.A.A.C.P. — and a subplot, involving Babe Ruth, feels stale and unnecessary.

Lehane laces his narrative with melodrama two brothers in love with the same woman, who harbors a secret past; a viciously racist cop out to destroy Luther and frame the burgeoning N.A.A.C.P. and a subplot, involving Babe Ruth, feels stale and unnecessary.

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