Still, naked of a compelling plot, in a strange sense Oates's remarkable ability is clearer than ever.

A show of conceptual daring can succeed absent a compelling plot.

At the core of the film's quality is a complex, compelling plot.

It has characters, it matters who they are, it makes sense of its action, it has a compelling plot.

Many of her examples, in fact, are more compelling than the series' convoluted plots.

This man's murder and the ensuing mother-daughter tensions provide the film with what would, under more conventional circumstances, be a compelling plot.

Short on heroes and villains, his book is populated instead with complex figures in a compelling plot.

The Gretzky-Messier drama was the most compelling plot, but it was not the only one.

This simple, yet compelling plot teaches that if people think and wonder why, things will begin to happen and dreams will come true.

Hadrian the Seventh (1904), with an original and compelling plot, is Rolfe's most famous novel.