It also claimed that the Dalek / Movellan war ( and indeed most of Dalek history before the destruction of " Skaro ") was actually faked for Davros's benefit ; the Daleks had discovered records of Skaro's destruction during their conquest of Earth, but, unable to change history, had developed an elaborate plot to bring the recorded events about while ensuring Skaro's survival.

" Mike Bogue of American Kaiju said the film " not liv up to its potential ," but added that " colorful and elaborate spectacle eventually won me over " and " the main story thread dealing with the eventual reconciliation of the divorced couple adequately holds the human plot together.

However, his next film, 1998's Ronin, starring Robert De Niro, was a return to form, featuring Frankenheimer's now trademark elaborate car chases woven into a labyrinthine espionage plot.

Luthor later escapes after a whole year in prison, through an elaborate plot involving clones: first using a clone of the President to grant him a pardon, then kidnapping the real Lois and replacing her with a clone just before her wedding to Clark.

The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate " production numbers ".

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on infidelity and double identities.

He hatches an elaborate plot to take a new identity in the belief it will free him of all his worries.

In theatre, a farce is a comedy which aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humor of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

At this time she became the victim of an elaborate plot by Hugh Despenser the younger with the help of King Edward II.

Nor does the interest of dramas depend on elaborate plot.

The original NES version of Crystalis was praised for its advanced graphics and high quality soundtrack, and also for its elaborate plot.

One traveled to New York to check whether the World Trade Center had actually fallen — believing 9 / 11 to be an elaborate plot twist in his personal storyline.

He is also sometimes called upon to assist Minnie in a particularly elaborate plot since his services can always be bought with a bag of sweets.

The plot revolves around an elaborate con set up by a mother-daughter team to swindle wealthy men out of their money, and what happens during their " last " con together.

It was later revealed that Oates had simply made up most of the details of the plot, and that there was no elaborate Popish Plot.

* Documentary-Hitler's Bodyguard: Bombs and Paranoia ( 2008, Episode 7 / 13 ), ( Convinced that a failed bomb plot had roots in England, a Gestapo counterintelligence officer engineered an elaborate sting to snatch British agents .).

Eventually, entr ' actes ( or intermezzi ) would develop into a separate genre of short theatrical realizations ( often with a plot completely independent from the main piece ), that could be produced with a minimum of requisites during intermissions of other elaborate theatre pieces.

A deathtrap is a literary and dramatic plot device in which a villain who has captured the hero or another sympathetic character attempts to use an elaborate and usually sadistic method of murdering him / her.

Misty's plot was more elaborate than most ; it was based directly on George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, as well as the Broadway and Hollywood success My Fair Lady.

The first arc involved the group being formed by Donald Pierce, who thanks to changes inflicted upon him by the Purifiers, impersonates Cyclops as part of an elaborate plot to kill the young mutants who he sees are the last generation of mutants born prior to M-Day.

She poses as a futuristic SGC doctor in an elaborate plot to obtain information from SG-1.

Usually he would make elaborate philosophical and mystical statements regarding the plot of each episode.

As described in the David Harris 1982 autobiographical book Dreams Die Hard, Sweeney succumbed to mental illness and became paranoid and delusional, believing that Lowenstein was the central figure in an elaborate plot against him.

Hordley's character Cain Dingle and Sadie hatched an elaborate kidnap plan involving Tom King-they set up the transfer of £ 2 million from the Kings to Cain in order for Tom to be released, however Cain double crossed Sadie.

This turned out to be the latest in a series of epic storylines featured in the webcomic, intended to reintroduce the character of Tyrant, a recurring villain who had first appeared in the strip as the president of Yahoo !, who had returned and hatched an elaborate plan to take control of the island for himself, a recurring mission for the character.

Charles Plummer in the introduction and notes to his splendid edition of Bede voiced some early doubts concerning the `` elaborate superstructure '' they raised up over the slim foundations afforded by the traditional narratives of the conquest.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Mainly an architectural movement, Gothic was characterised by its detailed ornamentation most noticeably the pointed archways and elaborate rib vaulting.

In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.

Snyder theorizes that Agathon might have made a deliberate effort to mimic the sumptuous attire of his famous fellow-poet, although by Agathon's time, such clothing, especially the κεκρύφαλος ( kekryphalos, an elaborate covering for the hair ) had long fallen out of fashion for men.

The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

A meager description was furnished by Mr. Laurents, who refused to elaborate.

In the late 19th century, elaborate productions of the play staged by Henry Irving employed a wide variety of approaches for this task.

Gnaeus Ahenobarbus seems to have wished to keep quiet ; but Gaius Sosius on 1 January made an elaborate speech in favor of Antony, and would have proposed the confirmation of his act had it not been vetoed by a tribune.

Most games begin with a specific layout of cards, called a tableau, and the object is then either to construct a more elaborate final layout, or to clear the tableau and / or the draw pile or stock by moving all cards to one or more " discard " or " foundation " piles.

Confucius's teachings were later turned into an elaborate set of rules and practices by his numerous disciples and followers, who organized his teachings into the Analects.

The procedure initiated by the text of Alexander III, confirmed by a bull of Pope Innocent III in the year 1200, issued on the occasion of the canonization of Saint Cunegunde, led to increasingly elaborate inquiries.

More elaborate reactions are represented by reaction schemes, which in addition to starting materials and products show important intermediates or transition states.

In others, more elaborate architectural settings developed, sometimes by converting a house and sometimes by converting a previously public building.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

This may be managed directly on an individual basis, or by the assignment of individuals and privileges to groups, or ( in the most elaborate models ) through the assignment of individuals and groups to roles which are then granted entitlements.

Although little information survives of the battles fought, enough early victories were apparently achieved for Domitian to be back in Rome by the end of 83, where he celebrated an elaborate triumph and conferred upon himself the title of Germanicus.

In Scots Law, Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh ( 1953 ) provides authority that where a witness has particular knowledge or skills in an area being examined by the court, and has been called to court in order to elaborate on that area for the benefit of the court, that witness may give evidence of his opinion on that area.

During the middle ages Aristotle's theory of tabula rasa was developed by Islamic philosophers starting with Al Farabi, developing into an elaborate theory by Avicenna and demonstrated as a thought experiment by Ibn Tufail.