The 39 Steps is also the first of the director's films to employ the celebrated Hitchcock MacGuffin, a plot device of vital importance to the characters but which is of little or no relevance to the actual story, here named in the title of the film.
In the Poetics, Aristotle assigned primary importance to plot (mythos) and considered it the very "soul" of a tragedy.
Defense lawyers said he was lying now to inflate his importance in the plot, "trying to write a role in history for himself, when the truth is he's just an Al Qaeda hanger-on". Prosecutors said they believed Moussaoui when he testified that he was in the United States to pilot a fifth plane into the White House on the morning of Sept 11.
Nevertheless, by imposing classical restraint on the Vicentian auto, by increasing the importance of the plot, by transferring the comic element from the characters to the action, and by refining the farce, Camões indicated a possible means of rejuvenating 16th-century comedy in Portugal.
His importance in the plot was confirmed by Abu Zubaydah, a captured Qaeda leader who is being debriefed by American authorities in southern Pakistan, although some officials have questioned how much Mr. Zubaydah knew of Mr. Mohammed's activities.
Variables associated with this separation were identified using the variable importance parameters for the plot and the associated S-plots [ 13].
The presiding judge said the teen chose Anzac Day to carry out the plot due to "its importance to Australia and its people", reasoning that "it was the day when the killings would have the greatest impact".
This study also highlights the importance of considering the plot-level AGB estimate uncertainty when field plots are used to calibrate remote sensing based biomass models.
America makes ample use of intercepts, as do most other common-law countries and nearly all EU states.But of greater importance to America's success in foiling plots speedily is its use of plea-bargaining and "holding charges".
He never again forgot the importance of understanding the plotting, intrigue, and politics involved in pushing through change.
