Sentences with phrase «subplot for»

Providing new challenges to best and weapons to earn, it acts as a new subplot for players to explore.

In Good Ol' Dead Tree, Vorhaus — formerly «a budding novelist with a big - time publisher» — plays out this grimmer subplot for us with a sad, cobblestone candor.Not much validation, he says, in a $ 26.75 monthly check from Amazon.

The story is already formulaic as it is, but someone came up with the bad idea of shoehorning in a romantic subplot for Vianne that feels just that — uncomfortably wedged in.

There's an attempt at creating an emotional subplot for her character's struggle with Alzheimer's, but there's not nearly enough to connect with for it to make any significant impact.

To inject some new life into Casey's heist, the script throws in a subplot for Geran and his partner - in - crime, Hagen Kahl (Anthony Hopkins).

The problem somewhat lies in misplaced priorities: Phillips and co-writer Scot Armstrong waste too much time on a silly love - interest subplot for Wilson; that time is much better served by the frat - boy idiocies, like Frank beer - bonging himself into streaking.

Beyond the chases and gunplay, there's an infertility subplot for Max and Annie; an exhaustingly recurring joke about embarrassed Michelle's one - time celebrity hookup; and truly painful discussion of urban - legendary autoeroticism involving Marilyn Manson.

His unlikely recovery would also be a feel - good subplot for Nigeria as they attempt to write another chapter in their Mundial history.

A club that didn't have to go big on potential — that maybe shouldn't have done so — deciding to roll the dice, and in the process delivering to the neutral a fascinating subplot for the season.

Thanks to the six - hour order, there's no shortage of subplots for the many returning faces, all of which still smartly stay close to the community hearth.

Although the driving force of the plot is the characters trying to escape the impending end of the world, the movie bogs itself down with too many aimless subplots for any potential drama to carry any actual weight.

Featuring strategic real - time combat, the remastered title also keeps the original deep Item Creation System and Private Action system that explores character relationships and subplots for a richer and more rewarding story, and Blindside battle system, which fuses evasion and offense.

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Interest rates should make for an interesting subplot in an already complex investing world.

But I saw that the dropping of the subplot was the point: This decision had become painful for the church, so they all shut up about it.

There's a subplot about the church's hiring decisions, which seems to get dropped for no reason.

Some brief appearances from a vicar, some short prayers for safety and a small subplot involving the earl's anti-Catholic views are pretty much the sum total of Downton's engagement with God so far.

In 2001, music categorized as ccm accounted for more than $ 1 billion in sales — up 12 percent in a year when the recording industry as a whole took a downturn, Newsweek ran a cover story on «Jesus Rock» and HBO's The Sopranos featured a humorous subplot about the mob family trying to get in on the action.

T.J. Yates in Houston is one of the coolest subplots in the NFL for that exact reason.

The feud between O'Neal and fellow superstar Kobe Bryant; the presumed lame - duck status of coach Phil Jackson, whose contract negotiations with team owner Jerry Buss, the father of his Significant Other, are on hold; the frustrations of Hall of Fame rentals Malone and Gary Payton — all have made for compelling subplots but not always compelling hoops.

For regurgitation during Super Bowl XLVII, consider these subplots and supporting characters

Even in comparison to just the past few seasons it was not the best played match, nor the most exciting, the subplots were minimal for a game of this magnitude (Barca and Messi in good form, Real and Ronaldo struggling), and it was absent the explosive flashpoints of the Mourinho era.

Match of the Round, Sunday 18:00 BST: Zenit St. Petersburg - Spartak Moscow By Martin Lowe (@PlasticPitch) This weekend's belter pits the two pre-season favourites for the Russian Premier League title, with plenty of subplots to ponder in the run up.

11:25 - The Telegraph have picked up on an important subplot in this week's PMQs: the varying fortunes of the MP for Cambridge, Julian Huppert, a man who tends to get ruthlessly jeered whenever he pops up to ask questions.

Their appearances and quest for the Conservative Party nomination had an additional subplot; Dietl's controversial remarks on Mayor de Blasio's wife the night before, Massey's statement condemning those remarks and Dietl's demand for an apology from Massey.

A subplot to these endorsements has been Cuomo's reminder that he successfully pushed for the legalization of same - sex marriage in 2011, a development that spurred President Obama to change his mind publicly on the issue.

Linares candidacy for Rangel's seat earlier this year made for one of the congressional race's strangest subplots.

But two subplots hold more meaning for how New York will be governed come January.

It's not the result physicists were hoping for, but data from a new experiment may put an end to a contentious subplot in the search for dark matter, the mysterious stuff whose gravity binds the galaxies.

The romance subplot between Barry and Jessica was also hollow for me.

Once Upon A Time In Venice is clearly a film made by cinephiles, but the scattered subplots and underdeveloped characters combine for an overall misfire.

It's instantly clear that Howard, along with returning screenwriter David Koepp, has learned nothing from the relative failure of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as Inferno, for the most part, chugs along at a lackadaisical pace that's compounded by an overlong running time and surfeit of underwhelming subplots.

It's also really long (especially the director's cut), and filled with a lot of filler subplots that just don't work for me, even with the decent use of mood, tone, and atmosphere.

::: SPOILER::: In a subplot, one of these manipulative girls» machinations causes such trauma for one of Zack's colleagues that he tops himself.

A subplot focused on an all - around jerk named Chuck (Patrick John Flueger), a romantic rival for Ren, never quite comes together.

Save for the pro forma family drama and Ray's own journey of personal growth, War of the Worlds is remarkably unconcerned with the subplots that bloat most genre films.

The same can be said for a minor romantic subplot involving Greg and his girlfriend Amber (Alison Brie), which is very much underdeveloped and doesn't add much to the final product other than a somewhat clichéd angle where Tommy becomes jealous of Greg's new relationship.

and a vaudeville sequence involving an East European maid, a dominatrix and a guy duct - taped to a chair, and there's an amusing subplot in which Stifler and Finch compete for the attention of Cadence (January Jones), Michelle's adorable younger sister.

With complicated subplots of friendship, love and family, the drama tells an inspiring story of the youth struggling for success.

It's a tragic subplot, but we don't see Tessa and her best together much to for strong story telling.

Plus, the subplot of the missing pooch got muddied within the storytelling or it tried too hard to be a metaphor for the loss of a connection between humans especially when someone isn't paying attention.

I thought that the subplot of Vanya's financial difficulties was never resolved, but I suspect that an apologia for this film would suggest that larger existential issues over-weighed money; it's true, but a commitment to solving all his problems would not have been hard to show.

Layering a damp - squib thriller subplot beneath what appears to be an ad campaign for the one - percent lifestyle, the returning director and screenwriter (James Foley and Niall Leonard) test the newly married couple with an inconvenient pregnancy and an unconvincing car chase.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

One subplot follows the principal soldier character's girlfriend preparing for a dance recital.

It takes a while for this season to build up some steam — by the third episode, though, we're back in full murderous swing, with some gasp - inducing twist — and things stall whenever the focus shifts to subplots involving Dexter's police co-workers.

Everyone here has his or her own little subplot: Ryan starts falling for Sarah (Sharon Horgan), a much smarter and more professional game - night partner whom he brings in as a ringer, and Kevin desperately wants to know which celebrity Michelle slept with while they were on a break before getting married.

By turns high - octane and slow - burn, it manages to hold the viewer's attention for its nearly 140 - minute running time, although there are instances when the narrative gets bogged down in subplots and there's a sense that some additional fleshing out of key relationships (something that could only have been accomplished in a mini-series format) might have resulted in a more satisfying ending.

Even as Snooki and «The Situation» are, in the context of the film, held at arm's length (figuring into a second - half subplot, they're often seen only on monitors and television sets), the Farrellys seem to be saying: «Yes, we even have room for these people.»

Both Violet and her sister Suzie (Alison Brie) are funny, flawed, believable characters, even if the subplot of Suzie's shotgun marriage to Tom's best friend Alex (Chris Pratt) feels like an underwritten foil for the main couple's story.

Serreau directs for maximum freneticism, with her actors rushing around and regurgitating great torrents of imperfectly subtitled dialogue (a gratuitous subplot involving drug traffickers seems to have been inserted just to double the hysteria), and while there are more than a few laughs, most of them are laughs of recognition — seeing these gags again is like coming across long - lost (and vaguely embarrassing) relations.