What Marianne Wiggins did was to take a familiar plot and add her own twist to it.

What is left are a familiar plot and strained acting, and "Stalag 17" deserves better treatment.

It is a familiar plot, but originality has never been one of the fantasy genre's strengths.

Listeners want to follow the familiar plot and go home humming.

The writing was criticized as "ponderous", and having "familiar, conventional plots".

No one should assume that familiar literary plots always make foolproof balletic scenarios.

It suffers from a plot so familiar that there can't be even a pretense of suspense about how everything will come out.

And there you have the outline of a tediously familiar plot.

Were the plot any less familiar, one would hesitate to mention it.

The plot, familiar to Timothy, presented no new depths on a second investigation.