Other times, he prioritizes superfluous aspects of the narrative or the set design to take over and slow his storyline down to a virtual halt. |
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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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Sometimes they have an overarching storyline as a subplot, but they don't rely on it solely. |
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While in many ways this is a good thing, the weaker storyline detracts from its overall enjoyability. |
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The movie is not weighted down by plot, but it does have a recognizable storyline featuring legitimate characters and a few nice twists. |
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In a recent breakthrough, the debut show of a Chinese-language TV drama serial had a gay storyline. |
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The game is rife with tongue-in-cheek humor, a strong storyline and innovative combat techniques. |
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When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves. |
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In a seamy storyline, she tries to badger her now-clean brother, Chris, into turning a trick with her in order to earn drug money. |
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The storyline of the opera focuses on the heart-rending love story between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi, a fragile but resolute girl. |
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Nothing happens for an hour and a half, it just meanders on and on, the storyline diverges into two equally blah-blah plotlines. |
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The storyline is decent, basically a rehash of the original told with a few tweaks and twists. |
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But, then, blooey, the storyline flies off into mannered absurdity, complete with a hostage-taking on top of the Eiffel Tower. |
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The convoluted storyline disappears into long stretches of guitar-play, synths, bleeps and bloops. |
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The cast and crew remained tight-lipped about the storyline and the characters of the film. |
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With the poor storyline, unchallenging missions, and poor enemy AI, the single player portion of the game is totally disposable. |
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The characters are surprisingly unconventional and breathe new life into a well-used storyline. |
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The current storyline in the Zippy the Pinhead newspaper strip has its cartoonist, Bill Griffith, lecturing Zippy on the art of cartooning. |
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The great genius behind this storyline was that Ward was slyly biting the hand that fed him. |
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I have no concerns about playing the part, only about doing the storyline justice and playing it sensitively. |
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What the game has to offer that is unique is its use of Japanese mythicism and an overall great storyline. |
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The princess provides a secondary storyline where she is obliged to follow rules and protocol. |
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And as long as there is a plot or a storyline, there is sure to be a movie being made about it in Nollywood. |
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The show manages to keep the viewer a little off balance with an edgy storyline that can at times be offset by some offbeat humor. |
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The storyline behind Infestation depicts the routine sci-fi staple of aliens at war with mankind. |
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While no, I can't say that I've seen this exact storyline unfold before, I can say that it never stops calling up memories of other shows. |
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And if the next public poll shows him gaining on Cruz, Arnold can use that as part of his storyline. |
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The whole C.M. Punk storyline several months ago was a stroke of pure genius. |
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The cutscenes that introduce the storyline are stiff and really don't immerse you into the world that is being portrayed. |
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Although each character's storyline is wrapped up, the climax is wishy-washy. |
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Predictably enough the game follows the same storyline as the movie and tells of Potter's fourth year at the school of witchcraft and wizardry. |
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In place of a legitimate storyline, the picture relies on the cuteness of its pint-sized stars and the charisma of its star to carry the movie. |
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There are no redeeming qualities to the surviving characters, nor is there anything remotely interesting about the storyline. |
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A formulaic plot, predictable storyline, and a slow beginning hurt what in some places is a nice suspense thriller. |
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Despite a storyline that seems to revel in its own convolutedness, the movie manages to present its themes as relatively simple. |
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It's also been harshly judged for its music, especially given the numbers that pop out of nowhere and don't always advance the draggy storyline. |
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The filmmaker keeps a tight rein on her direction and storyline, and the film's strength lies in its view of war through the eyes of women. |
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Patient reports of dreams experienced during REM sleep tend to be bizarre and detailed, with storyline plot associations. |
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But, when the humor is flat and repetitious, as is the case here, the absence of a credible storyline becomes a major drawback. |
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It is a groundbreaking attempt to protect a fictional storyline with a patent, rather than relying on copyright protection. |
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It would have all the commercial elements with a storyline revolving around college students. |
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Under the lightness is a well-crafted storyline, brought to life by great direction and performances. |
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Some films peter out purely on lack of effort in developing the main storyline. |
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Those wacky writers celebrated the seemingly immortal local television drama's 3000th episode with their most audacious storyline to date. |
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This gimmick blurs the clarity of the storyline without adding any appreciable benefit. |
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The problem was to create a storyline that would make each arbitrarily chosen episode compatible with the others. |
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This is a storyline the three have been ruminating on over the last two years. |
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Bela and Ruby are not going to be love interests unless something spectacular happens with the chemistry and it makes sense for the storyline. |
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But there is an eye for the storyline pent in tense emotion that generates many of these poems. |
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This was partly due to the patchy audio quality, but the cast's collective lack of acting ability and a stunted storyline didn't help either. |
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It wasn't easy, she admits, and she has not arranged them chronologically, but rather to establish an introspective and confessional storyline. |
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Planet of the Apes follows the original storyline only insofar as there are talking apes. |
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The fast break procession of big-time hoopsters completely overshadows the surprisingly feel-good storyline. |
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There is no sane reason to review the acting or storyline in A Night To Dismember. |
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Despite flashbacking and fast forwarding, the storyline is so tangled it encourages speculation. |
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One storyline details Blanche's experiences living in teacherages associated with one-room schools. |
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The acting and storyline are a cut above the usual melodrama that often accompanies telepics that address such a grave subject matter. |
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The song intersperses shots of the garage performance with a storyline showing a young girl sneaking out of her house through the window. |
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The pregnancy storyline was a bit much and definitely unneeded although it added depth to Dan's family life. |
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There's the tangled web and fatalism of Cocteau's standard storyline, but the movie lacks the waking dream state of Cocteau's movies. |
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Mobile's storyline is rather predictable and it's doubtful whether the show would work as a stage-bound, non-mobile monologue. |
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Some people just don't get this film and believe that the Coens are trotting out weak absurdism to disguise and buttress a genre storyline. |
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The storyline followed how one person used the communicator to rapidly assemble a crisis team dispersed across an office campus. |
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The storyline skips through similar romantic entanglements and political intrigues, en route to another happy ending. |
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Killer 7 has an excellent, although often completely incoherent, storyline about global politics. |
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There is a preposterousness in the book and the script which distances the audience from both the storyline and the characters. |
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Besson's storyline is vaguely intriguing, and there is that swell car-chase sequence to keep things ticking along nicely. |
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The idea is that America has become a madhouse, but the film's idiotic storyline and grotesque stereotypes of mental illness undercut its intended social impact. |
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The tizzy over the storyline was already whipped and then abated over in the U.K., where the episode aired months ago. |
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Chambers, who had divorced Traynor back in 1985, was uncomfortable with the storyline. |
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But Young has chewed into each storyline with not just her teeth bared, but also her soul. |
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The use of a Tolkein-esque storyline to illustrate the aspects of growing up and maturing is perfect, and the way in which the story is acted out and accented is priceless. |
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The storyline jumps forward and backward in time in non-linear fragments. |
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One of the driving elements of an adventure game is the storyline. |
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But Corey Stoll was so fantastic, I moved that storyline to his character, and that required a great deal of rewriting. |
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From a writing standpoint, having written the Mindy and Danny storyline, do you have any idea why TV is a place that suits this? |
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The Bachelor had debuted a year earlier, and audiences were ripe for a show that punctured its saccharine fairy-tale storyline. |
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The whole point of this storyline is that he has reduced her to a gibbering wreck through emotional and verbal cruelty without any physical violence. |
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People wrote him off, and yet he refused to leave the storyline. |
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Joss Whedon delivers a nicely paced storyline, one which only hints at some of the motivations of the major players and frequently wrong-foots the reader. |
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If I allowed myself to be persuaded into introducing certain elements that might make my books more saleable or change the storyline to make it more acceptable. |
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The film's incredibly bad storyline was only surpassed by the poor acting. |
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The storyline also gave Lady Grantham more agency, which appealed to McGovern. |
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I think the dog deserved to have a little bit of a storyline, so that had as much to do with it as anything. |
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And as previously mentioned, she joins forces with Iron Man and the pro-registration heroes during the Civil War storyline. |
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But Kelly continued with the storyline that Nolan is simply one of many Muslims living amongst us who at any time might kill you. |
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An anti-climactic end is not the World Cup storyline that English fans anticipated. |
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Daario is a fun character in the Daenerys storyline because he pushes her a bit. |
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The storyline turns disastrous, all against the barren, volcanic backdrop of Spanish island lanzarote. |
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Jam-packed full of toe-tapping song and dance numbers, a pacey storyline and fantastic production values, I can guarantee you'll be humming along as you leave the cinema. |
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Its storyline is chaotic, its flashback format too insular, and the resolution is buried in glamour shots, jiggling body parts, and faux fashion trendiness. |
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A murder mystery, the film, however, has a clear storyline and characters. |
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Aliens are a common theme both as a dramatic effect in a storyline and as the subject matter of serious newsmagazine programs about scientific exploration and pseudoscience. |
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A quality film with an original storyline is a rare find these days. |
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While the storyline meanders badly, the musical sequences are terrific. |
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I don't want to give anything away because the storyline is so good! |
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The film's weakness lies in its storyline, which is knotted with subplots. |
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Sadly, he could have done with a meatier storyline to rescue the movie from well-crafted hokum, which is a bit of a shame, given the money, the stress and a year's work. |
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The storyline is genuinely engaging, an honest-to-goodness mystery. |
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Plz don't take my storyline, cuz it took me forever to think up! |
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Like JM Coetzee's Disgrace, the novel which pipped it to the prize, Fasting, Feasting has a storyline which revolves around parents and daughters. |
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Instead, what we end up with is a parlor trick as plot device, a shockingly surreal way of keeping both husband and wife front and center in the storyline. |
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Though the storyline was good the script and treatment are a huge put-off. |
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As I mentioned in the homework addendum, the storyline was enthralling. |
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That emotional storyline is hurled about without due care and attention. |
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With the storyline of the film revolving round the nexus between drug mafia and underworld dons, the mood of the film is certainly reflected in the music, it has been claimed. |
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A derivative of Japan's long samurai-manga tradition, it has the requisite tangled storyline and some thrilling, plasmic exchanges rendered with a prodigious brush. |
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It's best to disregard the storyline as much as possible and just sit back and enjoy the ride. |
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Marvel has also published their take on this classic by releasing a short comic series of five issues that stays true to the original storyline. |
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Siamese troubadours and minstrels added more subplots and embellished scenes to the original storyline as time went on. |
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While the Historia is often useful to scholars, it is also the source of storyline details that have no discernible provenance. |
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The storyline is riveting, and the artwork, while not realistic, is full of brutal energy, much like the violence in horror movies. |
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Several trade analysts believe that low-key promotion and below par storyline are the reasons for the poor box office performance. |
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Rosie having a romance storyline is, for a fan, radical in itself. |
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Sony said the ads were based on the content and storyline of Heavy Rain and were not intended to glamorise violence. |
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Her storyline surrounds protagonist, Nana, a woman from Ghana, who was genitally mutilated as a child. |
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He also made his feature film scriptwriting debut in 1960, penning The Criminal from a storyline originally by Jimmy Sangster. |
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Cushman's success broke the Garrick tradition and paved the way for later performances to return to the original storyline. |
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We felt the storyline made the most sense for Rebekah, because she has always been the one who said she wants to be cured from vampirism. |
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Ben Richards, who plays the PC, doesn't have to think too hard when asked what's been his favourite The Bill storyline over the years. |
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A show source said that, despite the smiles, they were taking the storyline very seriously. |
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There have also been several films that transposed the general storyline of Hamlet or elements thereof to other settings. |
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It's a serious storyline, but the episode is still as delightfully Christmassy as ever. |
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Sandford balances a solid end that still permits the messiness of the real world to impact the storyline. |
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The plot is typical horror B-movie, but the thin storyline really does not matter so much once you put on those 3D specs. |
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In the game, players must fight to avenge the death of their fallen master in a classic Wuxia storyline. |
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An editorial decision by DC to censor Veitch's final storyline caused both Gaiman and Delano to withdraw from the title. |
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On 6 December 2010, the popular soap opera Coronation Street featured a storyline with an explosion which caused a crash on the Metrolink system at Weatherfield. |
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So we get semi-plot ballets without a storyline in sight, offering nothing but aimless, meaningless, and therefore artistically destructive, cheap emoting. |
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In Washington, there is no higher art form than the non-denial denial, in which politicians try to rebut a storyline without quite denying the specifics. |
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While the films follow the book's general storyline, they do omit some of the novel's plot elements and include some additions to and deviations from the source material. |
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The new film follows on from the storyline of the original 1970s release. |
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What it lacks in storyline, I-Spy more than makes up in comedy. |
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The game's storyline is inspired by the Deuterocanonical book of Enoch. |
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Tolkien did not like the title The Return of the King, believing it gave away too much of the storyline, but deferred to his publisher's preference. |
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Larger-than-life characters and a storyline to make B-movie scriptwriters shuffle uncomfortably in their seats, the Autobots and Decepticons are at it again. |
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Though many of the book's passages more than hint at an Austrian storyline, the authors rely explicitly on monetarist theory, which features the quantity theory of money. |
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The full Gifted storyline With a fear of being touched, germaphobe Chris commutes to his London office wearing a disposable lightweight boiler suit and leather gloves. |
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That film had a wonderful storyline, but the poor acting let it down. |
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