One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.

One explanation may be that Hamlet was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was adept at matching rhetorical devices to characters and the plot.

One of these included the use of the steam indicator which produced an informative plot of the pressure in the cylinder against its volume, which he kept as a trade secret.

One plot element shared by the comic and the show is Lex Luthor's problematic relationship with his wealthy father, Lionel.

One of the undercurrents of the plot is Daniel and his family's relationship to Jed, Daniel's younger brother who died in a boating accident while they were children.

One of the plot hooks that the second edition books put forth were persistent rumors of a " tenth sphere ".

The 1985 comedy The Man with One Red Shoe features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot.

One person was killed in the course of the plot — a Japanese passenger seated near a nitroglycerin bomb on Philippine Airlines Flight 434.

One of the sub-plots in this novel ( on occupying the Siberian " Northern Resource Area ") would later form part of the main plot of Clancy's later novel The Bear and the Dragon.

One particularly memorable piece of tabloidesque worldplay parody, involving a fictional plot to assassinate Paul McCartney by a disgruntled former roadie, read ' Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops ', or with a gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy, ' BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas '.

One episode, " The Way ", which loosely interpreted elements of Hinduism as major plot points, generated controversy, requiring the producers to add a disclaimer at the head of the episode and a tag explaining the episode's intentions at its end.

One such plot occurred in 1656 when a dozen Black men, led by William Force, a free Black man plotted to murder their English masters.

One of the tales, " Judar and His Brethren ", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder brothers.

An example of the murder mystery and suspense thriller genres in the collection, with multiple plot twists and detective fiction elements was " The Three Apples ", also known as Hikayat al-sabiyya ' l-muqtula (" The Tale of the Murdered Young Woman "), one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights.

One version of the story tells of Heraclianus bringing Claudius into the plot while the account given by Historia Augusta exculpates the would-be emperor and adds the prominent general Marcianus into the plot.

One of her early serials on the programme was City of Death, which Adams wrote, and which shares certain plot elements with the novel.

One of the tales, " Judar and His Brethren ", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder brothers.

Joyce himself tacitly acknowledged this radically different approach to language and plot in a 1926 letter to Harriet Weaver, outlining his intentions for the book: " One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

One of the main characters in the novel, Maria Theotoky, writes her PhD on the works of Rabelais, while a murder plot unfolds around a scholarly unscathed manuscript.

One is used as a plot mechanism to explain the vampire god, Marius, which sparks an interest in Lestat to find him.

One of the series ' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is Lucille Fletcher's " Sorry, Wrong Number ," about a bedridden woman ( Agnes Moorehead ) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate.

One of the early humorists already mentioned, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier literary treatment of those materials.

One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.

One might digress at this point and speculate that if it is `` wise '' to create special sections for special status, then why not a special section for women pregnant before marriage, and one for 44-year-old men with teenage children, and so on.

One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity by liquor and the excitement of the moment, performed a perfect swan dive out of the stands at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, landed squarely on his head on the concrete ramp below, and died at once.

One of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( 4Q535, Manuscript B ) is written from Amram's point of view, and hence has been dubbed the Testament of Amram.

The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable.

* One central point of divergence is Steiner's views on reincarnation and karma.

One of the first reactions was to simply increase the guard, creating what at times might seem a small army trailing every leader ; another was to begin clearing large areas whenever a leader was present, to the point where entire sections of a city might be shut down.

Finally the structure portrays the trial faced by the Anointed One as the focal point of the book ( D ).

One important turning point came in the Seven Years ' War, when the British conquered the port of Havana and introduced thousands of slaves in a ten month period.

One large text which has survived, The Book of Two Principles ( Liber de duobus principiis ), elaborates the principles of dualistic theology from the point of view of some of the Albanenses Cathars.

One can use the same principle to specify the position of any point in three-dimensional space by three Cartesian coordinates, its signed distances to three mutually perpendicular planes ( or, equivalently, by its perpendicular projection onto three mutually perpendicular lines ).

In Part Two, the author acknowledges the criticism of his digressions in Part One and promises to concentrate the narrative on the central characters ( although at one point he laments that his narrative muse has been constrained in this manner ).

One featured in the album The Artist in the Ambulance called " The melting point of wax.

One of these is centered on the northwest point of the atoll, another is found near the Point Marianne Cemetery on the southeast end of the airfield.

One aspect that gradually became disturbing from a civil rights point of view, was that relatives would use deception, or legal dealings or even kidnapping to get the recruit into deprogrammers ' hands, without allowing the person any recourse to a lawyer or psychiatrist of their own choosing.

One reason that the ancients treated the parallel postulate as less certain than the others is that verifying it physically would require us to inspect two lines to check that they never intersected, even at some very distant point, and this inspection could potentially take an infinite amount of time.

One is translation, which means a shifting of the plane so that every point is shifted in the same direction and by the same distance.

One point that Bagley noted was that students in the U. S. were not getting an education on the same levels as students in Europe who were the same age.

One of the topics he dealt with was the freedom of the will, a crucial point.

One point agreed on is that fractal patterns are characterized by fractal dimensions, but whereas these numbers quantify complexity ( i. e., changing detail with changing scale ), they neither uniquely describe nor specify details of how to construct particular fractal patterns.

One purpose of point positioning is the provision of known points for mapping measurements, also known as ( horizontal and vertical ) control.

One often cited example, though perhaps not Luther's chief concern, is a condemnation of the selling of indulgences ; another prominent point within the 95 Theses is Luther's disagreement both with the way in which the higher clergy, especially the pope, used and abused power, and with the very idea of the pope.

One group of opponents of this point of view, including many European nations, maintain that all civilized nations have certain norms of conduct expected of them, including the prohibition of genocide, slavery and the slave trade, wars of aggression, torture, and piracy, and that violation of these universal norms represents a crime, not only against the individual victims, but against humanity as a whole.

* All at One Point — The fact that all matter and creation used to exist in a single point.