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- noun Plural form of
subplot .
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Examples
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Since the President abrogated the constitution, one of main subplots in Fiji has been the fight between the government and the Methodist church – whose membership claims roughly 35 percent of the population (the majority are ethnic Fijians).
Global Voices in English » Fiji: A roadmap towards elections? 2009
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Picoult individualizes the alternating voices of the narrators more believably than she has previously, and weaves in subplots to underscore the themes of hope, regret, identity and family, leading up to her signature closing twists.
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No matter how bad the condition of the material may be, the original intention of the film, including all of its minor characters and subplots, is now once again tangible for the normal viewer.
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Even the longer-term subplots simmering in the background don't sustain their tension well; when they come to the foreground, always abruptly, they don't resolve with much bigger bangs than any of the other threads or arcs.
Archive 2009-05-24 2009
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Grogan weaves in subplots about his love for his wife and his ambivalence about South Florida, where he lived when he acquired Marley. which help to make his book as poignant as it is funny.
Marley and Me Gift Edition: One-Size-Fits-All Appeal « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006
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Grogan weaves in subplots about his love for his wife and his ambivalence about South Florida, where he lived when he acquired Marley. which help to make his book as poignant as it is funny.
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I couldn’t change dialogue, I couldn’t cut or add lines, and I certainly couldn’t add in subplots of my own.
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Martin Koerber, the restorer of the hitherto longest known version of “Metropolis”, who also examined the footage, said to ZEITmagazin: “No matter how bad the condition of the material may be, the original intention of the film, including all of its minor characters and subplots, is now once again tangible for the normal viewer.
Boing Boing 2008
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Two other subplots are also going on during all this.
30 « June « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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Two other subplots are also going on during all this.
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