It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

The language was spoken and sung verse, the performance area included a circular floor or orchestra where the chorus could dance, a space for actors ( three speaking actors in Euripides's time ), a backdrop or skene and some special effects: an ekkyklema ( used to bring the skene's ' indoors ' outdoors ) and a mechane ( used to lift actors in the air, as in deus ex machina ).

And yet when the gods appear deus ex machina, as they do in eight of the extant plays, they appear " lifeless and mechanical ".

Based on the concept of nanotechnology, their comical deus ex machina activities included such diverse tasks as instant repair and construction, hairstyling, performing a Nanite variation of a flea circus, conducting a microscopic war, and even destroying the Observers ' planet after a dangerously vague request from Mike to " take care of little problem ".

The goddess Athena intervenes and persuades both sides to give up the vendetta, a deus ex machina.

" The spelling discrepancy of the added ' y ' was later explained as a deus ex machina on the part of " The White " ( a force of good throughout King's Tower series ) to bring the total number of letters in her name to nineteen, a number prominent in King's series.

Joshi argues that King's best-known works ( his supernatural novels ), are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings.

" Soap narratives, like those of film melodramas, are marked by what Steve Neale has described as ' chance meetings, coincidences, missed meetings, sudden conversions, last-minute rescues and revelations, deus ex machina endings.

In contrast with Nathan-Turner's attitude that the sonic screwdriver should not be used as a cure-all, the new production team gave it even more functionality than previous versions which has given the series some criticism as it seems to be a deus ex machina, a literary device that is generally avoided.

Macheath escapes this fate via a deus ex machina moments before the execution when, in an unrestrained parody of a happy ending, a messenger from the Queen arrives to pardon Macheath and grant him the title of Baron.

The NTIs ' knowledge of neuroanatomy and nanoscale manipulation of biochemistry was responsible for many of the deus ex machina aspects of the film.

Newsweek magazine's David Ansen, summarizing the theatrical release, wrote, " The payoff to The Abyss is pretty damn silly — a portentous deus ex machina that leaves too many questions unanswered and evokes too many other films.

This is more often than not a daunting task, and such explanations often have the flavor of ad hoc contrivances or deus ex machina.

This device gave origin to the phrase " deus ex machina " (" god out of a machine "), that is, the surprise intervention of an unforeseen external factor that changes the outcome of an event.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie frequently consult a volume of the set to get themselves and their uncles Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck out of dangerous situations ( see deus ex machina ).

Many of his " rules " are often associated with " Aristotelian drama ", wherein deus ex machina is a weakness the action is structured economically.

The term deus ex machina is used to refer to a narrative ending in which an improbable event is used to resolve all problematic situations and bring the story to a ( generally happy ) conclusion.

The Latin phrase " deus ex machina " has its origins in the conventions of Greek tragedy, and refers to situations in which a mechane ( crane ) was used to lower actors playing a god or gods onto the stage at the end of a play.

The character in this way also functions as a deus ex machina.

John eventually saves himself, through a literal deus ex machina, in a campfire conversation with God.

In this series, Dorothy remains inexperienced and unfamiliar with the shoes ' magic, and as such, calls upon their power only as a last resort ; often resulting in a deus ex machina scenario.

In such scenarios, the author often uses deus ex machina to allow the invasion to be repulsed.

In the end two instances of deus ex machina resolve the complicated situation.

Their role in the film was about as minimal as one would expect given this, except near the very end when they save Miss Piggy's life in a comic deus ex machina ( she falls off a cliff, and they just happen to be underneath her ).

Later Roman historians disputed its exact location and no trace remains of the temple or altar ; the latter has been historically misidentified with the Palatine altar inscribed si deus si dea (" whether God or Goddess "), in cautious dedication to some unknown deity.

A deus ex machina ( or ; Latin: " god from the machine "; plural: dei ex machina ) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object.

More than half of Euripides's extant tragedies employ a deus ex machina in their resolution and some critics go so far as to claim that Euripides invented the deus ex machina, although Aeschylus employed a similar device in his Eumenides.

The flood is considered by some to be a deus ex machina.

In some other episodes, the plot suddenly transitioned into extended sequences that involved crew dismantling or changing the sets, characters wandering off the set into other parts of the studio, production crew stepping into the scene as a deus ex machina ( e. g. a propmaster suddenly walking into the scene and taking the villain's gun away ), or guest actors dropping character and referring to each other by their real names.

Never specifically identifying his pagan adversaries, some of whom may be straw men, set up to be demolished, Arnobius defends and expounds the rightness of monotheism and Christianity ( deus princeps, deus summus ) and the divinity of Christ, by adducing its rapid diffusion, its influence in civilizing barbarians and its consonance with the best philosophy.

When fighting bad guys, Courageous Cat would use all-purpose Cat Gun or a vast variety of different deus ex machina " trick guns " he pulls out of his cape that ( like Green Arrow's trick arrows ) fire whatever the situation requires like a rope, some water, a parachute, cages, boxing gloves, lightning-like magnetic rays, or even more bizarre ammunition and even the occasional actual bullet ( in case of emergency Courageous also has extra pre-James Bond secret gadgets hidden in his belt buckle and the star emblem on his chest ).

He is the source of some weird gadgets which wreak havoc in Bumble's life or work as a deus ex machina to solve the problems which Bumbles ill conceived grand designs have caused.

However, involving as it does some deus ex machina, the device is less than entirely satisfactory.

According to Suetonius, he was the first Roman Emperor who had demanded to be addressed as dominus et deus ( master and god ).

Although Domitian was the first Emperor who had demanded to be officially hailed as dominus et deus ( master and god ), these titles never occurred in written form on official documents until the reign of Aurelian.

In Etruscan mythology, Voltumna or Veltha was the chthonic ( earth ) deity, who became the supreme god of the Etruscan pantheon, the deus Etruriae princeps, according to Varro.

Paul Erdős, the eccentric and extremely prolific Hungarian-born mathematician, referred to the notion of deus deceptor in a humorous context when he called God " the Supreme Fascist ", who deliberately hid things from people, ranging from socks and passports to the most elegant of mathematical proofs.

A more frequently cited example is Euripides ' Medea in which the deus ex machina, a dragon-drawn chariot sent by the Sun-God, is used to convey his granddaughter Medea, who has just committed murder and infanticide, away from her husband Jason to the safety and civilization of Athens.

Traditional Roman religion distinguished between a deus ( god ) and a divus ( a mortal who became divine or deified ), though not consistently.

The resolution involves an archetypal deus ex machina, a childish god who evidently created the universe on a whim but doesn't really understand it.

Historian Mircea Eliade calls this Supreme Being a deus otiosus ( an " idle god "), although this term is also used more broadly, to refer to any god who doesn't interact regularly with humans.