counterplot
Example Sentences
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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
Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes.
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
He has written of Cornwall before, but never such a story of plot and counterplot, mystery and adventure, so deftly intermingled as this.
From The White Lie by Le Queux, William
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