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whole and plot
A search for the author of the publications uncovered the whole plot, yet Aron was only banished due to his connection of the royal line of Bulgaria, whose blood also flowed in the veins of the empress Irene.
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 whole matter has assumed the portion of Dayton and her merchants endeavoring to secure a large amount of notoriety and publicity with an open question as whether Scopes is a party to the plot or not.
Now, according to our definition, Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete, and whole, and of a certain magnitude … As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed.
He attended the People's Court, presided over by Roland Freisler, as an army spectator at some of the show trials for officers involved in the July 20 plot where an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Hitler at Rastenburg and was disgusted by the whole process.
You ’ re laughing, but there ’ s actually something deeper going on as well .” When work on the plot began, Gilbert discovered that Schafer's and Grossman's writing styles were too different to form a cohesive whole: Grossman's was " very kind of a dry, sarcastic humor " and Schafer's was " just a little more in your face ".
", and Adrenaline Vault likened The Curse of Monkey Island to the adventure genre as a whole, saying: " The twin vitals of an adventure game are a good plot coupled with strong dialogue.
Almost the whole of The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to the plot ( unless Katharina's subservience to her " lord " in the last scene is intended to strengthen the deception against the tinker ) and is often dropped in modern productions.
For composers, the sonata form is like the plot of a play or movie script, describing when the crucial plot points are, and the kinds of material that should be used to connect them into a coherent and orderly whole.
One of the group, the Reg mentioned in the title, is not a character in the play but the whole plot revolves around his apparent promiscuity and the chain reaction of deception and betrayal set off by it.
This plot is based on a song that Stevens recorded in 1986 entitled " Dudley Dorite of the Highway Patrol " where a local policeman stops Stevens for speeding and afterward informs the singer that he's in a whole lot of trouble for using easily identifiable people as characters in his songs.
Though this may be the first published book of Miss Agatha Christie, she betrays the cunning of an old hand … You must wait for the last-but-one chapter in the book for the last link in the chain of evidence that enabled Mr. Poirot to unravel the whole complicated plot and lay the guilt where it really belonged.
On a deeper level, though, Cunt can be seen as an attempt to ridicule both machismo ( with the man always willing, ready and able ) and the whole genre of pornographic literature, the latter by the author's making use of exactly the same devices — a flimsy plot linking the various descriptions of the sexual act, the presentation of women reduced to " cunts " pleading to be abused, and filthy language everywhere.
This twist is not merely a function of plot: it puts the whole concept of detective fiction on an armature and sculpts it into a dazzling new shape.
Mark Hooker, an independent academic at Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute, has interpreted the Golden Leech as capitalism, and the whole plot as an allegory of Yemets's real-world legal conflict over the copyright.
Brutus marveled when he saw the gash on her thigh and after hearing this he no longer hid anything from her, but felt strengthened himself and related to her the whole plot.
The primary plot is the large plot at the bottom, which shows the LAI for the whole world.
" The Boston Herald proclaimed the film as " arguably Woo's masterpiece, it is an action film to end all action films, an experience so deliriously cinematic it makes " True Romance ," a film that clearly aspires to it, look like a cheap copy " A review in Newsday gave the film three and a half stars, stating that " Mayhem has never looked better than in John Woo's latest high-caliber cops-and-robbers thriller, even if the plot is a bit slippery " and that John Woo " has blasted the action genre onto a whole new level.
Mack was able to get the charges dropped ( as he had done with Paige a season earlier ) when a hidden fingerprint proved Jill closed the trunk of Gary's car herself and the whole thing was exposed as a plot by Jill to frame Gary. Valene's Aunt Virginia " Ginny " Bullock ( Lilimae's sister ) came to Visit Knots Landing and ended up moving in with Valene on Sea-view Circle.
* The whole plot has an obvious influence from retro murder novels.

whole and Look
GM styling as a whole lost its frontrunner status in 1957 when Chrysler introduced Virgil Exner's " Forward Look " designs.
Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground – the unborn of the future Nation.
Look, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people.
Look North was broadcast across the whole of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region at the time Levy started to work on it.

whole and relies
Indeed, between parody, satire and such subgenres as romantic comedy, comedy as a whole often relies on either formulaic elements, or the mocking of such elements.
Rb-Sr dating relies on correctly measuring the Rb-Sr ratio of a mineral or whole rock sample, plus deriving an accurate < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr ratio for the mineral or whole rock sample.
The legislature as a whole relies on its committees to report out only those bills deserving the consideration of the entire house.
( Contrast this with frequentist inference, which relies only on the evidence as a whole, with no reference to prior beliefs.
As the whole section relies on English language rhyming, it was removed from international versions of the game.
Visual communication in part or whole relies on vision, and is primarily presented or expressed with two dimensional images, it includes: signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, colour and electronic resources.
From then on, the embryo relies mainly on the yolk stored in its stomach, though it may continue to feed on remaining eggs by squishing the capsules between its jaws or swallowing them whole.
# Positivism-The whole of situational ethics relies upon the fact that the person freely chooses to believe in agape love as described by Christianity.
The greater fool theory relies on market optimism and market momentum concerning a particular stock, an industry, or the market as a whole.
As to the fourth set of cases, Publius explains that this relies on the proposition that " the peace of the whole ought not to be left at the disposal of the part.
Sites become more maintainable as the whole site can be restyled or re-branded in a single pass merely by altering the mark-up of the specific CSS, affecting every page which relies on that stylesheet.

whole and on
From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.
Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.
It contains, in fact, their whole outlook on life.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.
Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.
Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.
We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.
His soldiers on the whole did not celebrate so mildly.
The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.
Just no spot, not even a dimesize spot, on her whole body that wasn't bruised, bruise on top of bruise, from beatings.
They insisted on the `` fundamental fact '' that `` the whole of Berlin has a quadripartite status ''.
reaching agreement on projects of value to the whole community has long been one of Greater Miami's hardest tasks.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
Then let the whole lot be hanged in a public mass execution on July 4, 1963.
The effect of Chou En-lai's clash with Khrushchev, together with the everlasting attacks on Molotov & Co., has shifted the whole attention of the world, including that of the Soviet people, from the `` epoch-making '' twenty-year program to the present Soviet-Chinese conflict.
I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.
Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.
`` My nephews will be coming down '', she said that evening as Angelina brought her dinner into the dining room, the whole meal on a vast linen-covered tray.
a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

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