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Mr. Foster dismisses their preoccupations with bionic implants or humanoid robots as MacGuffins—Alfred Hitchcock’s term for a device that momentarily advances a movie plot but ultimately fails to develop into anything.
Some attribute it to Austen’s role in ushering in the rom-com, and perfecting the “marriage plot” in her courtship novels.
From Los Angeles Times
The December dot plot, showing individual officials’ forecasts for rates and various economic indicators, highlighted the divide.
From Barron's
Information gathered on Chinese Arctic voyages enables its scientists to build computer models of undersea conditions, which its navy can later tap to plot routes allowing them to operate more freely in the open sea.
Even its two-minute teaser trailer doesn't shed much light on the plot.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
