The truth is that I get a sinking feeling each time I encounter the marriage-plot argument.
The other side of the marriage-plot argument concerns the happy ending, Emma Woodhouse rather than Emma Bovary.
But crusading, she argued, produces bad fiction; novelists must produce plot, not argument.
Dulack's strengths — plot and argument — are novelistic rather than theatrical.
Like "The Waste Land," whose influence is profound but seldom obvious, "The Lost Son" dispenses with plot and argument for the sake of a hypnotically effective voice.
CSIS and the RCMP have lobbied the federal government to give them more power to "disrupt" terror threats in recent years, arguing that the law currently doesn't allow them to infiltrate and stop terror plots — an argument seemingly belied by the case unfolding in Vancouver.
"ARK" has no plot, not much argument, not much development.
For a plot indicating the argument of (e_{omega,b}); see Fig. 4.
It is a heroic story about a journey into the unknown, complete with characters that stay with you, evil monsters, unexpected plot swings, violent argument and unexpected acts of compassion.
This figure was generated using a superposition of 30 plane waves with frequency vectors at the vertices of a random polygon inscribed in a circle, and random Gaussian weights (see the Appendix); what is plotted is the argument.
But, while Williams gives a plausible picture of life on the inside, he sometimes doctors his plot to suit his argument.
