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
Since the starlings were plainly not going to migrate from Radford of their own accord, the townsfolk and various wildlife experts hatched a counterplot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impossible Mission Force, the counter espionage team, stages a counterplot to stave off the nuclear destruction of a U.S. city.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the waters were seething now, stirred to their very lees by plot and counterplot.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
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
Sir Robert Wingate listened while John Strong told the story of the plotting and counterplotting in Chicago.
From Ted Marsh on an Important Mission by Alice Carsey
Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
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
Over the plotting and counterplotting, the rivalries and jealousies which followed, we must pass.
From Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall
