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Example sentences for: subplot

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He writes that several years ago he tried to persuade Norman to devise a screenplay about Shakespeare's relationship with the homosexual playwright Christopher Marlowe, whose murder in a tavern in 1593 forms a subplot to Shakespeare in Love . Other scholars are gentler on the film.
"Boilerplate," says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan, pointing out that the flashbacks are cheesy, the characters stock, and the themes, such as the subplot about unrequited love, tired.
The Post 's second lead (and the NYT 's third story; the LAT ran it inside) details a legal subplot, complete with a walk-on by Ken Starr.
It gains much, however, from a subplot featuring Nathalie Richard as Zoe, a high-strung lesbian costume designer who's too shy to put the moves on Maggie.
A racist subplot revolves around a Chinese exchange student called Long Duk Dong.