counterplot

Example Sentences

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He was aided by his brother Stephen White, an author of crime fiction, in shaping the narrative, and the book sustains momentum through plots, counterplots and diversions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2022

It’s an absurd assignment, of course, but no different from other plots and counterplots of the era.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2020

On the page, at least, it finds its author awkwardly trying to shoehorn his fabled sense of a melting American identity into the intricate plots and counterplots of the genre known as noir.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2017

Advertisement Advertisement The attendant plots and counterplots are laid and hatched in a world in which a moss-covered past always coexists with a shiny present.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2015

One senator denounced the various “illegal plots, counterplots, espionage, decoys, dictographs” that were being used not to “detect and prosecute crime but...to shield profiteers, bribe takers and favorites.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann