counterplot
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Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
Conspiracy buffs will love the nearly incomprehensible swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power.
From Time Magazine Archive
With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!
From Time Magazine Archive
In two of three new television shows, the singers are almost buried under plot and counterplot, characterization and attempted comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't think the lady will scream, for it seems to me that there's a kind of counterplot afoot—either against Billy, the Turkish government, or Miss Arkwright.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
So after all the plotting, the counterplotting, the dangers and hardships; after all her own gallant efforts, the girl had lost the game.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
He resolved to learn the nature of the plots that were in existence, before he commenced counterplotting.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton
Would all this trouble, the plotting and counterplotting, never end?
From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow
Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
