Sentence examples for usual plot from inspiring English sources

"Up to that point, Caldecott followed the usual plot," Sendak said.

Without the distraction of the usual plot, the violinist Laura Ha, intense and energetic, stole most of the attention, unexpectedly transforming the work into a violin concerto.

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed (like all of Pratchett's books) to the usual plot fixes of fantasy, The Amazing Maurice deserves its medal.

The usual plot of an otherwise ordinary human gaining fantastic powers so that he (unfortunately rarely a "she") can vanquish his enemies and be adored by the masses will always be an appealing fantasy.

There's the usual plot of a young, unlikely hero becoming involved with wizards and attractive, powerful women before discovering that he's descended from a line of heroes (naturally), but there are some twists that make this one better than most, including a darker-than-usual section where things go badly for the protagonist.

To do so, Ben has to quickly work his way up to the 4th floor to get additional privileges, which means lots of scheming, backstabbing, and all of the usual plot points attached to a good guy doing bad things in order to ultimately do a great thing.

The usual plots are found in this collection of trickster stories.

The usual plots describe South Korean or US perfidy and end with a victory for the KPA.

It took more liberties with the original novel than usual – plots were dropped, motives skewed, two characters conflated to make a serial-killing lesbian nun.

As celebrity and mass-market fragrances peddle the usual plots of desire and aspiration (often in steamy commercials with vigorous hair-tossing), smaller players have found success with desexualized, sometimes unusual back stories.

This theoretical result is in agreement with the experimental findings of the German physical chemist Julius Tafel (1905), and the usual plots of overpotential versus log current density are known as Tafel lines.