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Example sentences for: subplot

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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.
A racist subplot revolves around a Chinese exchange student called Long Duk Dong.
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.
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.