Sentence examples for weighty plot from inspiring English sources

I'm of two minds about "Taxi Driver," which had some ambitious ideas and some weighty plot movements to handle, but also seemed to lack the sparkle or gravitas of previous episodes in much of its execution.

Before the weighty plot sets in, Chigozie Obioma, a fisherman of the nostalgic, reels you in with his dauntless prose reminiscent of African folklore and the stories my own father told me about his childhood in Nigeria.

On that point and others, the script stays fairly faithful to the novel's plot and its weighty questions.

After the weighty, if wittily presented, Czech plot line, the Canadian murder mystery provides a bit of escapist relief.

Eurogamer's Simon Parkin cited the story as being very good, though he found Nowe "a little nauseating to watch as the weighty, dark (and pretty good) plot unfolds", and VideoGamer.com's Adam Jarvis called the story "one of the highlights of the package".

Paretsky goes in for dense and weighty (not to say bloated) plots, and this one is no exception.

That force is the weighty obligation of condensing a plot-packed, multigenerational doorstop of a novel — about big old, unruly Texas, to boot — into a work that floats through 3 hours 15 minutes of stage time.

The field stood out from past years because the four plays, all by American writers, had their starts at respected Off Broadway theaters and drew critical acclaim for intelligent plotting, character development and weighty roles.

But the play is simply too long, its score too weighty for such thin characters and a flimsy plot.

The writer commented that, by basing its "trans-European plot around the legends of the Knights Templar", the game "succeeds in appearing weighty and complex without ever losing its sense of place".

The either-or propositions that animate the plots of "Liar Liar," "Bruce Almighty" and "Yes Man" have the stark simplicity and weighty significance of a philosophical fable or a Zen koan.