Too many scenes let the characters shine without moving the plot forward, and a romantic subplot near the end goes nowhere. |
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The subplot centers were permanently marked with metal rebar stakes with labelled metal caps. |
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A subplot featuring a female FBI agent is clumsily grafted onto the main story. |
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Sometimes they have an overarching storyline as a subplot, but they don't rely on it solely. |
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As well, there is the sentimental subplot thrown in, in which Murray has a daughter who's upset by her father's potentially lethal unhealthiness. |
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There is a major story subplot that I have not mentioned, which truly kick-starts the emotional journey for all of our characters. |
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In the end, this subplot becomes a mere plot device when the out-of-control avenging husband bails up O'Reilly at the climacteric. |
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It's as if this started out as a significant aspect of the main storyline, then was shoehorned into a minor subplot. |
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The subplot of Indian and Chinese interracial relationship was in the mix from the very outset. |
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However, the film might have benefited from a subplot exploring the back-stories of some of the other refugees. |
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Thackeray evidently thought that this was too good a subplot to be used only once in English fiction. |
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Could this mean that Oliver Stone has adapted Don Winslow's book to add a subplot about the end of Nasa's manned space programme? |
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Meanwhile there is a subplot about five people who all had a role in a crooked real estate deal. |
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Kinsella deserves some credit for writing a subplot about a gay character coming to terms with his sexuality in The Wedding Girl. |
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But what exactly would turn psychotropic drugs like Prozac and Paxil and Zoloft into a subplot in the subprime mess? |
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Not only is there the day to day running of your farm, but there's a bizarre subplot involving pixies who give you magic farming tools in return for giant mushrooms and such. |
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But the weakest subplot, at least dramatically, is the Wakefield story. |
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There is a woman of easy virtue, also gleefully played by Jane Nash, who tries to entrap Bob and the usual subplot of the squire's nephew trying to anticipate his inheritance. |
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The subplot is always whether The Company will outrun her latest mood swing, which also turns out to be somehow brilliant. |
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One subplot exchanges homeless people for illegal immigrants crossing into the United States. |
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But no matter how Stanton rejiggered the subplot it kept stopping the movie: there was no emotional payoff. |
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The intriguing subplot is that West Ham and Everton are locked in a race to qualify for Europe via the Fair Play League. |
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This episode is similar to the Portuguese subplot in The Spanish Tragedy. |
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The subplot ends with an allusion to Elaine's beating of this man in a restaurant. |
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Eventually, after being distracted by an unnecessary subplot about goings-on in Vegas, Jack unravels the cover-up and starts proving that revenge is a dish best served cold. |
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This subplot narrates the story of a book written in Latin by Hernando de Rivas, a Nahuatl, during his stay in the convent of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco. |
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It's when the love story collides with the subplot that conflict arises. |
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So many actresses are near-identical brunet supermodels — including wife Lori, girlfriend Maggie, and nurse Lily in Season 4 — that I began to suspect there was a cloning subplot. |
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A subplot of Sunday's Final is the potential shoot-out for the Golden Boot between Villa and Sneijder, who has flourished behind Robin van Persie in the 4-2-3-1 system in vogue in South Africa. |
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Structurally, the two most variant scenes are Scenes 3 and 4 in which the compiler works out the variant subplot. |
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For all plots, ramet density was calculated by counting the number of stems of each plant species encountered in each subplot. |
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Many of the central plot elements existed before designer Brian Mitsoda's involvement: the prince, the anarchs being upset, aspects of the Gehenna storyline and Jack and the sarcophagus as a major subplot. |
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This ill-chosen subplot also means that Kingsolver must make Cash Stillwater more than just a returning widower. |
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There's a bizarre subplot about a manhunt for a terrorist and much fussing over a mollycoddled pet dog who has a CAT scan. |
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The springboard for both the main plot and subplot of King Lear, in fact, is adulterous motherlessness, both suspected and admitted. |
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The subplot to this story is the deal will end the Rockefeller family's involvement with the landmark complex after 70 years. |
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No British schoolboy drama is complete without some gay subplot, but here the gay material is especially nuanced, ambiguous, and even subversive. |
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In an uninteresting and predictable subplot, he is also p ursued by the late client's daughter, who begs him to ignore the will. |
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A subplot, which sows the seeds of romance between the lonely widow and a handsome cowboy, is a belated yet welcome diversion. |
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Nevertheless, each subplot this year feels fleshed out and infinitely more satisfying than the scattershot kitchen sinkery of Asylum and Coven, what with their zombies, aliens, demons, mutants and Stevie Nicks-es. |
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The whole point of the goofball before Green Wing was that he was asexual, he was the subplot, the light relief, the man from whom the portent and gravity and stress associated with testosterone had been removed. |
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This was a cause he was happy to be swept into: climate change made a perfect subplot for his grand narrative about the world of evil capitalism ruining nature. |
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There's a strange subplot involving a half-naked ditz whose pet chimpanzee attacked her best friend, and G. J. herself is less mother hen than megalomaniac. |
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For practical reasons, a representative subplot can be used. |
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There are 72 trees in each plot and 36 trees in each subplot. |
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There is a subplot involving Emily's best friend, Jane, and a girl who bullies Jane about her weight, but this neither adds to nor detracts from the story. |
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