| They arrive more as a deus ex machina, as a catalyst for change, than as a barrage of special effects. |
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| But for the grace of the deus ex machina, Measure for Measure would have turned into King Lear. |
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| Their driving passion isn't a deus ex machina at the end of time that sets the world right and cleans up the mistakes of the first creation. |
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| The end of the text is almost an easy deus ex machina and threatens to undo the work. |
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| Although spectacular, resolving an otherwise kitchen-sink drama with a deus ex machina in the form of a ghost is not emotionally satisfying. |
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| Ghost lineages are frankly a contrived solution, a deus ex machina required by the cladistic method. |
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| As always, the Bellamys manage to arrange a legal deus ex machina to solve the problem, packing James off to India in the process. |
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| Does Scripture imply an omnipotent deus ex machina who intervenes in the historical world to put a stop to all human evil? |
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| Thankfully, at this point, it appears that I abandoned the poem, perhaps because of the ridiculous deus ex machina at the end. |
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| Unconventional contrivances and machina arcana include a range of desktop siege weapons including miniature trebuchets, ballistae, and mangonels. |
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| What is nice is that the technology is an inherent part of the plot, rather than a handy deus ex machina to lift our hero out of trouble when the writers get into a corner. |
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| And thus the too-good-to-be-true ending is not only useful flattery of the king, but also a deus ex machina so blatant the author surely wants us to disbelieve it. |
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| By the end of each half hour, conflict has been quickly resolved, often by some deus ex machina. |
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| Then out of the mist, a whirring of helicopter blades, and, deus ex machina, a man descends fromt he chopper to winch you aboard. |
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| This engaging tale develops its characters subtly and skilfully and has an improbable but enjoyable ending involving Capone as the deus ex machina. |
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| We used a sale of the business at a ridiculously high multiple to make the numbers work, a deus ex machina. |
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| Oh, now I'm backed into a corner, and can't devise a way out. I could sure use a deus ex machina right about now! |
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| But in Sleeping Planet I found something different, an epic drama where salvation didn't depend on high-tech lasers or death rays or even deus ex machina items like germs. |
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