unravelment

Example Sentences

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I am, as you may all know, a writer of stories which depend for their success upon the creation and unravelment of criminological mysteries.

From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Wallace, Edgar

They unfold the action, and conduct it by insensible degrees to an ingenious conclusion: this is what is called the unravelment.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea

And yet, desperately as Stingaree sought unravelment, he was at the same time subconsciously as deep in a study of a face so unfamiliar that at first he had scarcely known it for his own.

From Stingaree by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Now the very last thing that Wagner does is to sweat blood over the plot; and on this and the unravelment he certainly spends the smallest possible amount of energy.

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

The plot is drawn with consummate skill—not in the sense of a Gaborian-like unravelment of mystery, but in its organic, natural, inevitable development, and in the abiding interest of its evolution.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)