Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "A Murder Is Announced" ¶ 50
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

plot and is
There is no more `` plot '' than that ; ;
The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world ; ;
As you have doubtless guessed already, the plot is plastered with Freudian, Jungian, and Meinckian theory.
They might, for example, plot it exactly as is, or they might make ten day moving averages of it, or longer moving averages, or they might simply plot the ratio of odd-lot purchases to odd-lot sales.
In addition, it is an important link in the plot, giving us a revealing glimpse of the people's attitude toward Boris and the false Dimitri.
A straight line relationship is usually observed in a plot of Af against load L, having slope k, and Af.
You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.
that its presentation in this country is part of a capitalist plot to boobify the American people ; ;
I know nothing of any plot, if there is such a thing ''.
The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.
The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.
Not much is known concerning this plot and the reasons behind it.
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 grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.
The ansible itself is a major plot element, nearly a MacGuffin in Moon's Vatta's War series.
the plot takes place only in a gigantic megastructure / arcology simply called the City, which is still being expanded by its automatic systems.
The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.
Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.
The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.
The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.
First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

plot and ingenious
The death has been made to look like suicide, but Wimsey and Harriet discover that he was the victim of an ingenious and complex murder plot.
The Times in its main paper gave the book a second review in its issue of July 2, 1935 when they described its plot as " ingenious " and commented on the fact that Christie had evolved a method of presenting a crime in a confined space ( with reference to The Mystery of the Blue Train and Murder on the Orient Express ) which " however often employed, never loses its originality.
The author has certainly won her bet, and in addition to a most ingenious plot of the best detective type she has introduced a new type of detective in the shape of a Belgian.
" Unlike other critics, Milne thought the new plot was refreshing: " With the possibilities of the characters the previous Halloween films well and truly exhausted, Season of the Witch turns more profitably to a marvellously ingenious Nigel Kneale tale of a toymaker and his fiendish plan to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins.
" The upshot, in the critic's opinion, was that " the mixture — of good living, sex and violent action — is as before, but this is a highly polished performance, with an ingenious plot well documented and plenty of excitement.
Roger Ebert's critique of this film stated that the plot to sell the jury to the highest-bidding party was the most ingenious device in the story because it avoided pitting the " evil " and the " good " protagonists directly against each other in a stereotypical manner, but it plunged both of them into a moral abyss.
A small group of inmates, including the narrator, plot their escape, which they carry out by constructing an ingenious getaway vehicle.
An ambitious Moff Disra leads a conspiracy to divide the uneasy coalition with an ingenious plot to blame the Bothans for a heinous crime that could lead to genocide and civil war.
The Times Literary Supplement of July 18, 1936, summarised in its review by Harry Pirie-Gordon the setup of the plot and concluded, " The plot is ingenious and the first murder very cleverly contrived but some will doubt whether Mrs Leidner, as described, could have been so forgetful and unobservant as to render the principal preliminary conditions of the story possible.
The trio then devises an audacious plot to steal the weekly $ 250, 000 cash delivery from a major bank, and Malcolm collaborates with Frank and Jude to create a set of ingenious inventions.
Although the plot occasionally called for Helen to be rescued by a handsome male hero, in most episodes it was the dauntless Helen who found an ingenious way out of her dire predicament and single-handedly collared the bad guys, bringing them to justice.
While occasionally the plot called for Helen to be rescued by a handsome male hero, in most episodes it was the dauntless Helen herself who found an ingenious way out of her dire predicament and single-handedly collared the bad guys, bringing them to justice.

plot and ever
Poe devised a " plot formula that's been successful ever since, give or take a few shifting variables.
In the wake of the plot against Hitler's life by a group of regular military generals in July 1944, the Führer came to distrust his regular military, putting ever more trust in the SS, particularly Himmler, who had acted against the plotters and their families.
Gladstone is said to have been the most powerful magician to ever become Prime Minister, and though he is not included as a character, several objects of his are central plot points.
More recent authors who have used damnatio memoriae as a plot device include Milan Kundera in his 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, R. A. Salvatore in the 1990 novel Homeland, Lois Lowry in her 1993 novel The Giver ( a version in which the damned name is never given to any new baby ever again ), and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in their 1999 Prelude to Dune trilogy.
Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father ; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978 ( further reinforcing this is Obi-Wan Kenobi calling Vader " Darth ", as if it is his true name rather than his new Sith name ).
Much of the plot is also similar ; Petruchio vows to marry Catharine before he has even seen her, she smashes a lute over the music tutor's head, Baptista fears no one will ever want to marry her ; the wedding scene is identical, as is the scene where Grumio teases her with food ; the haberdasher and tailor scene is very similar ; the sun and moon conversation, and the introduction of Vincentio are both taken from Shakespeare.
House of Leaves, the tale of a man who finds a manuscript telling the story of a documentary that may or may not have ever existed, contains multiple layers of plot.
It contains five stories averaging 60 pages each: “ Pankraz der Schmoller ,” “ Frau Regel Amrain und ihr jüngster ,” “ Die drei gerechten Kammacher ,” “ Romeo und Julie auf dem Dorfe ,” and “ Spiegel das Kätzchen .” Hartmann characterizes two of the stories in Die Leute von Seldwyla as immortal: “ Die drei gerechten Kammacher ” he views as the most satyric and scorching attack on the sordid petit bourgeois morality ever penned by any writer, and “ Romeo und Julie auf dem Dorfe ” as one of the most pathetic tales in literature ( Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet plot in a Swiss village setting ).
" Goldwyn biographer A. Scott Berg explained that “ in the Epsteins ’ version, more than had ever been suggested the original story was shown, resulting in a ‘ four handkerchief ’ movie with a farfetched plot.
Some alleged he had connections to the KGB, the allegations continued during 2003-2008, when Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had been granted access to Soviet archives, declared that Iliescu and some of the NSF members were KGB agents, that Iliescu had been in close connection with Mikhail Gorbachev ever since they had allegedly met during Iliescu's stay in Moscow, and that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a plot organized by the KGB to regain control of the country's policies ( gradually lost under Ceaușescu's rule ).
The Sandpiper was one of the very few major studio motion pictures ever filmed in Big Sur, and perhaps the only one to identify real Big Sur locales by name as part of the plot.
The Times Literary Supplement of January 11, 1936 concluded with a note of admiration for the plot that, " If Mrs. Christie ever deserts fiction for crime, she will be very dangerous: no one but Poirot will catch her.
Ever since the final investigations ceased, there has been a much heated debate about the Cerro Maravilla incident within Puerto Rico, with some groups arguing that there are still others responsible for planning and / or ordering the plot to kill the activists as well as the subsequent cover-up, while others have argued that the incident was exaggerated by rival politicians and the media, maintaining that no conspiracy was ever present and that some of the officers incarcerated, though not all, are actually innocent.
In 1896 both All-Irelands were played in the ground signifying the growing importance of the suburban plot for the ever expanding GAA.
Some counter-terrorism experts have expressed doubt that the plot was ever fully developed or likely to occur.
As late as 2010, Reyat admitted only to buying and assembling some parts, but denied he ever made a bomb, knew what the bomb was to be used for, who was behind any plot, or that he ever asked or knew the name of the man who he said stayed in his house for a week completing construction of the explosive device after his device failed.
This understated feature, ever present but easily overlooked, was referenced as a plot element in 20th Century Boys.
Jaws: The Revenge earned the lowest amount of money in the series, and due to its many plot holes and inconsistencies, is considered one of the worst films ever made, with a rare 0 % rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes ( in contrast to the original Jaws film, which maintains a rare 100 % rating 37 years after its release ).
The manuscript also named nearly 100 Jesuits and supporters, supposedly involved in this assassination plot ; nothing in the document was ever proven to be true.
Joaquim Eugênio de Lima, the engineer who donated the plot of ground to the City Hall, tied the donation to an express commitment that no edification should ever be constructed in that plot that would harm the amplitude of the view.
The plot of the film, if one was ever developed, was never published.
This movie, and I'm not saying it's the greatest movie ever made, but it represents many things that I think are worth aspiring to, such as having character and emotion be the driving force, rather than the plot .... When I first saw In a Lonely Place as a teenager, it frightened me and yet attracted me with an almost hypnotic power.

0.687 seconds.