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 thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

One swallow was all he would have ; ;

One girl expressed what was obviously in their minds.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

One cause of Schopenhauer's pessimism was the fact that he failed to learn the guitar.

One was an article on the U.N. by Alice Widener from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.

One person she helped was my brother.

One of Sherman's most serious shortcomings, however, was his mistrust of his cavalry.

One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.

One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.

One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.

One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.

One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.