It furthered the revolution begun by Show Boat, by thoroughly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with the songs and dances arising out of and further developing the plot and characters.

The inner workings of technology and the mechanics of various disciplines ( espionage, martial arts, politics ) are thoroughly explored, and the plot often turns on the particulars of that exploration.

Afterwards, his wife picked the script from the bin and read it more thoroughly, convincing him that the plot had more substance than he originally assumed.

The inner workings of technology and the mechanics of various disciplines ( espionage, martial arts, politics ) are thoroughly explored, and the plot often turns on the particulars of that exploration.

Time magazine referred to the musical's plot as having been " boldly extrapolated " from the short story, and called the result " a thoroughly pleasant musical evening ".

Checkmate adds an element of crime and adventure to that atmosphere, but the countless coincidences throughout the plot guarantee a thoroughly predictable happy ending, complete with a double wedding.

The inner workings of technology and the mechanics of various disciplines ( espionage, martial arts, politics ) are thoroughly explored, and the plot often turns on the particulars of that exploration.

Nash theorizes that the plot unraveled when the body was found to have fingerprints that didn't match Dillinger's ( the fingerprint card was missing from the Cook County Morgue for over three decades ), it was too tall, the eye color was wrong, and it possessed a rheumatic heart.

" He continues by admitting, " When Lady Mason tells Sir Peregrine that she did forge the will, the plot of Orley Farm has unraveled itself ;-and this she does in the middle of the tale.

Leopold takes her to his lab, but two of her companions ( having unraveled the plot ) are waiting there.

She left Chicago soon after her plot unraveled, and was not seen again.

In the Bacchae, he restores the chorus and messenger speech to their traditional role in the tragic plot, and the play appears to be the culmination of a regressive or archaizing tendency in his later works ( for which see Chronology below ).

Also, in the popular video game Morrowind, its expansion Bloodmoon has a plot enemy known as Hircine, the Daedric god of the Hunt, who appears as a horned man with the face of a deer skull.

* 1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.

As a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, Jean Grey appears in various alternate plot lines and fictional universes.

Pope Clement VIII appears as one of dramatis personae in the album The Metal Opera ( 2000 ) by German heavy metal band Avantasia, where he plays vital role in the fantasy-styled plot.

For example, the plot of Robin Hood's Death, found in the Percy Folio, is summarised in the 15th-century A Gest of Robyn Hode, and it also appears in an 18th-century version.

Tolkien refines parts of Beowulf plot that he appears to have found less than satisfactorily described, such as details about the cup-thief and the dragon's intellect and personality.

It appears as a crucial plot device in The Children's Hour, a Man-Kzin Wars novel by Jerry Pournelle and S. M.

Both are comic servants, but Pedrolino, as a so-called first zanni, often acts with cunning and daring, an engine of the plot in the scenarios where he appears.

It shows the plot of the comic to be just a small section of a world inhabited by what appears to be the entirety of fiction.

The " Pyramus and Thisbe " plot appears twice in Shakespeare's works.

* Moriarty appears in a short story by Donald Thomas, in his collection The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes, as the mastermind of a blackmail plot involving the alleged bigamy of Prince George.

However, as the plot moves along, he redeems himself by changing his form to resemble the Hatter during his execution and then evaporates as the axe is about to make contact, thus fooling everyone as the Hatter's hat floats up to the Queen's seat and Cheshire appears and winks.

In 1654, Rupert appears to have been involved in a plot to assassinate Oliver Cromwell, an event that would then have been followed by a coup, the landing of a small army in Sussex, and the restoration of Charles II.

The latter stereotype is a central plot element of The Paper Chase and appears in Legally Blonde.

The new version, titled simply VALIS, was completed late in 1978 and published in 1981 ( the plot of the earlier version appears as the plot of a science fiction movie, also called " VALIS ," that the characters see ).

The British and American governments had been largely unaware of the " federation " plot, which appears to have been Richard's own personal idea.

: Artificial Intelligence ( 2001 ), the Blue Fairy ( voiced by Meryl Streep ) appears as a plot MacGuffin.

A normal swept spectrum analyzer would produce max peak, min peak displays for example but a realtime spectrum analyzer is able to plot all calculated FFT's over a given period of time with the added colour coding which represents how often a signal appears.

The date line appears as a plot device in Jules Verne's book Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1873 ).

The plot of the anime film from the anime series Atashin ' chi appears to be based on Freaky Friday, in which Mikan and her mother accidentally switch bodies due to their being struck by lightning during a storm.

The main plot appears in linear prose in chapter VII, The Mayan Caper.

This pink and grey building with while pillared entrance first appears in season 1, episode 6 " Portrait of Yesterday ", as the home and wedding venue of the incidental characters Windward House then reappears from season 2, episode 1 as Charlie Hungerford's main residence where he is hosting a large garden fête, and then appears in almost every episode of the show-either used heavily as part of the central plot, or as a backdrop for family gatherings, drinks parties, business meetings, barbecues, marquee events, etc.

After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

And in the new `` King Of Kings '' the plot involves intrigues and twists and turns that cannot be traced to the Gospels.

In narrative, ambiguity can be introduced in several ways: motive, plot, character.

Though aware of the plot, Agrippina embarked on this boat and was nearly crushed by a collapsing lead ceiling only to be saved by the side of a sofa breaking the ceiling's fall.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

A long narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

Cortés wrote that the other lords would be too frightened to plot against him again, as they believed he had uncovered the plan through magic powers.

The final plot allows the symmetry of the crystal to be established.

The plot is thwarted and the secret preserved-the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam kills the Mentat and arranges for his corpse to be shipped home to Giedi Prime.

After the credits of Billy Wilder's film Witness for the Prosecution, the cinemagoers are asked not to talk to anyone about the plot so that future viewers will also be able to fully enjoy the unravelling of the mystery.

Quadratic equation plot of showing its roots at and, and that the quadratic can be rewritten as

" Some however consider unpredictable behaviour to be realistic in tragedy: " everywhere in Euripides a preoccupation with individual psychology and its irrational aspects is evident .... In his hands tragedy for the first time probed the inner recesses of the human soul and let passions spin the plot.

Autocorrelation can be visualized on a data plot when a given observation is more likely to lie above a fitted line if adjacent observations also lie above the fitted regression line.

Often it is discovered that there are plot holes, missing shots or even missing segments which might require that new scenes be filmed.

It should be noted that a good deal of the American use of cross-cutting was not the rapid alternation between parallel chains of action developed by D. W. Griffith, but a limited number of alternations to make it possible to leave out uninteresting bits of action with no real plot function.

In terms of content, enforcement of the Production Code ensured that no film character could literally get away with murder or be seen sharing a bed with anyone but a spouse ; within those bounds, however, many films now identified as noir feature plot elements and dialogue that were very risqué for the time.

: The Director is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including controlling the content and flow of the film's plot, directing the performances of Actors, organizing and selecting the locations in which the film will be shot, and managing technical details such as the positioning of cameras, the use of lighting, and the timing and content of the film's soundtrack.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

A plot of the first few factorials makes clear that such a curve can be drawn, but it would be preferable to have a formula that precisely describes the curve, in which the number of operations does not depend on the size of n. The simple formula for the factorial, n < nowiki >!</ nowiki > = 1 × 2 × … × n, cannot be used directly for fractional values of n since it is only valid when n is a natural number ( i. e., a positive integer ).