Nevertheless, they found a readiness for critics to " seize upon " key statements and portray punctuated equilibrium, and exercises associated with it, such as public exhibitions, as a " Marxist plot ".

* My Sister's a Pop Star ( 2006 ), I'm SO Not a Pop Star ( 2008 ), and the third book in the series, My Life on TV ( 2010 ), by American author Kimberly Greene, use blog posts to move the plot along and introduce key changes in the protagonist's thinking.

* Gene therapy is an important plot key in the game Bioshock where the game contents refer to plasmids and splicers.

The smuggling of Malevich paintings out of Russia is a key to the plot line of writer Martin Cruz Smith's thriller Red Square.

* The short story " There is a Tide " begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.

In the children's book and movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a pair of red ruby slippers play a key role in the plot.

Moreover, The Patriot does not depict the American character Benjamin Martin as innocent of atrocities ; a key plot point revolves around the character Benjamin Martin's guilt over acts he engaged in, such as torturing, killing, and mutilating prisoners during the French and Indian War.

*" Revenge of the Lutefisk ", an episode of the animated series King of the Hill, uses the dish as a key plot device.

The dime is a key plot point in practically every story featuring Magica De Spell, a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain.

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

* The story of Philomel is a key plot element in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Apart from being set in Wyoming and the fact that many of the characters have the names of key figures in the Johnson County War, the plot and the characters themselves have almost no relation to the actual historical people and events.

A key thread in the film's plot involves a " race defilement " trial known as the " Feldenstein case ".

Most of the later episodes were entitled " The Big _____ ", where the key word denoted a person or thing in the plot.

* A key plot element of the 1994 science fiction film Without Warning involves an alien race having intercepted Voyager and relaying part of the UN Secretary-General's message back to Earth.

* In the Transformers spinoff Beast Wars, one of the discs is a key plot point that sets the series in motion.

A key plot element which emerges quickly as the story unfolds is the relatively static nature of the human societies in the various future centuries, and the repeated failure of space travel in all accessible centuries.

With the Battle of Neville's Cross ( 1346 ) being a key part of the plot.

Marijuana-spiked brownies are a key plot element.

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold misleads the reader, by changing a key plot element of its predecessor, Call for the Dead, wherein Hans-Dieter Mundt escaped capture by Smiley and Guillam and returned to East Germany.

* In chapter 10 of C. S. Forester's Hornblower and the Hotspur, the destruction of a French semaphore tower and a shore battery is a key plot point.

In an interview, McQuarrie talked about how the plot succeeded in one key respect ; despite the conspirators ' obvious failure to kill Hitler, one of their objectives was also for history to reflect that they tried so the world would know that not all of Germany or its military was sympathetic to Hitler.

Essex is often looked upon as a surprise appointment to his key treasury role, but, based on his experience in Ireland and his ability to go ' toe to toe ' with Danby on financial matters, it was in fact a sensible choice for Charles, and gave him the best option for balancing his financial options as the events leading to the Popish plot and Exclusion began to unfold.

A key plot element involves Uncle Scrooge losing his fortune stored in his money bin when the floor of the bin collapses and the contents fall into a seemingly bottomless pit.

This is the one part of the HIV virus outer coating that does not change, because it is the attachment point to T lymphocytes, the key cell in cell-mediated immunity.

* 1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.

A key point which is often overlooked is that published lower bounds for problems are often given for a model of computation that is more restricted than the set of operations that you could use in practice and therefore there are algorithms that are faster than what would naively be thought possible.

This was a key turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, enabling the Royal Air Force, the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the U. S. Navy to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap.

Beef extract was eventually reintroduced as a key Bovril ingredient in 2006, after the European Commission lifted its ban on the export of Britain's beef products ; it was only at this point that the manufacturer stated explicitly that this had been the main reason for beef's removal.

Calvin considered the first coming of Christ as the key turning point in human history.

As the key size increases, so does the complexity of exhaustive search to the point where it becomes impractable to crack encryption directly.

Cameroon lies at a key point in the Trans-African Highway network, with three routes crossing its territory:

Such keyboards use a minimum of seven keys, where each key corresponds to an individual braille point, except one key which is used as a spacebar.

Episodes ( if applicable ) and entries are usually alternated until the " final entry " of the subject, by which point the music has returned to the opening key, or tonic, which is often followed by closing material, the coda.

A key point in finance, which affects decisions, is the time value of money, which states that a unit of currency today is worth more than the same unit of currency tomorrow.

Partition was not by itself the key breaking point between pro-and anti-Treaty campaigners ; both sides expected the Boundary Commission to emasculate Northern Ireland.

The 1857 Sepoy Rebellion, or Indian Mutiny, an uprising initiated by Indian troops, called sepoys, who formed the bulk of the Company's armed forces, was the key turning point.

Her rage at losing makes her join the Greeks in the battle against Paris's Trojans, a key event in the turning point of the war.

related to Polish & Russian ' klucz ' ( a key, a hint, a main point )

For example, a key frame could be set to indicate the point at which audio will have faded up or down to a certain level.

" He then seized the records, snatched the bill from the hands of the clerk, drove the members out at the point of the bayonet, locked the doors, put the key in his pocket, and returned to Whitehall.

Although Whitehurst described the FBI's sloppy investigation of the bombing site and its handling of other key evidence, he was unable to point to any direct evidence that he knew to be contaminated.

A key point of contention in the case was the unmatched left leg found after the bombing.

The key point is that if no one else is keen to bet, then the most a player can raise by ( in a limit game ) is one single bet.

In concrete terms, from a security point of view, there is now a " single point of failure " in the public key revocation system.

There are but two means of spreading information ( i. e. a key revocation ) in a distributed system: either the information is " pushed " to users from a central point ( or points ), or else it is " pulled " from a central point ( or points ) by the end users.