Khalid Sheikh Mohammed conceived a plot to hit Heathrow after the attacks on America five years ago, the documents from the US office of the director of national intelligence said.
To have conceived a plot that involved the manipulation of two powerful figures and to have dared to put it into action must have required a degree of calculation and sang-froid that never registers in Ms. Swank's performance.
How does one conceive a plot that is truly unique and doesn't easily become mired in clichés and predictability?
Eventually, they conceived a plot where "Phineas and Ferb go into the future and actually see Candace as an adult (which) drags up all kinds of memories of not being able to bust them".
But I convinced myself that by changing the careers and numerous other biographical details of the characters, as well as by conceiving a whole plot that bore no resemblance whatsoever to real events, I had sufficiently fictionalised the source principals in my drama.
A half-dozen different romance novelists could have conceived a juicier plot, and as for the Delacroix-inspired evening dresses, lace and mousseline drapes in dusty pastels, you could find close-enough versions right now in shop windows.
"There's conceiving a symphony.
He and Bennett split the task of conceiving the plot between them.
She is, to an intoxicating degree, the definition of a free spirit, although the plot turns on her desire not just to conceive a child but to conceive a child right now.
