Canny symphonic plotting was one of Gilbert's virtues; this Fifth was more about instant gratification.
Already in the Prelude, you had a sense of a canny master plan, with crescendos plotted like parabolas of expanding size.
In a feature film, the silences are likely to be onscreen, rather than the tacit product of a canny cut that leaves space for a plot point to be tacked on later.
He's no snob about wine, either, always on the hunt for a bargain and canny in seeking out those vineyards and plots that lie next to the big names yet charge half the price.
The other battle he faces requires the help of Steve Hilton, the canny ex-advertising executive now widely credited with plotting Cameron's ascent over the past two or three years.
Each subplot also has three plots with the continuous blue line for Canny, red short dashed discontinuous line for the Proposed and the black continuous line with black asterisk markers for Tiansi.
He found plenty of intercepted plots against soft targets (malls, synagogues, restaurants, etc)., several cases where only a last-minute break prevented the plot from going forward, and plenty of plotters canny enough to cobble together their devices out of ordinary household materials.
A canny opponent, Mr. Mohammed mixed disinformation and braggadocio with details of plots, past and planned.
Adopted by studio owner Chris Moon and manager Owen Husney, he began plotting his route to a record deal, cultivating a canny air of mystique while playing up to an X-rated image he'd developed after an early immersion in pornography.
Initially entertaining, such gimmickry swiftly becomes tiresome and, rather than adding depth, detracts from a plot that does pick up in the novel's final third, culminating in a canny, multiple-choice Q&A.
