Sentence examples for plotting from inspiring English sources

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plotting

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The act of scheming or making plots; machination.

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For me, being an actor was synonymous with wandering round with a gin and tonic and plotting how to murder your wife by cutting the brakes on her car, having offered to fix them ("You fools, anyone could have told you I wasn't a qualified mechanic").

This was a way of building a narrative that leaves out all essential elements – plotting, psychology, narrative twists – leaving only the core inner experience of the central characters as the real texture of the book.

The Shawshank Redemption Sleeper hit The Shawshank Redemption, stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne: a banker wrongly jailed for murdering his wife, who spends two decades getting sweet revenge on the corrupt governor, while plotting his own ingenious escape.

Zimbabwe detained 70 men of various nationalities this month and has charged them with plotting to kill President Obiang and his bodyguards.

Even as he spoke out against international corruption, Anwar was plotting a political comeback.

All this makes Darlington, a marginal Labour seat where the Liberals have high hopes, a counterpart to Bermondsey in plotting the extent to which Labour's standing nationally maybe collapsing.

Zawahiri said: "Crusaders and secularists and the Americanised army have converged … with Gulf money and American plotting to topple Mohamed Morsi's government".

Afzal Amin, the Conservative candidate who was recorded allegedly plotting with the English Defence League, has resigned "with immediate effect" to avoid a disciplinary hearing by the party.

Although in a rebel-held area, Ganyiel is a relatively safe village, away from the fighting that started in December 2013 after Kiir accused his vice-president, Machar, of plotting a coup.

Instead, grangers are active, reengaging with the activism of the 1960s and 70s, out on picket lines, cooking up food for strikers, getting arrested at protests, rallying in the streets, peopling anti-fracking and anti-logging and anti-McDonalds and anti-war actions – organising, planning, plotting.

Long accused of centralising power and eroding the country's democratic institutions, Mr Orbán is now charged by his critics with plotting to restrict access to the internet, the only significant information space still largely uncontrolled by the government, by making it too expensive for many users.

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