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Some of you will be familiar with the term deus ex machina.

Archive 2009-03-01 Editorial Anonymous 2009

Some of you will be familiar with the term deus ex machina.

Parent Ex Machina Editorial Anonymous 2009

Eddie did not know the phrase deus ex machina, but he knew-had now grown up enough to know'that such wise and kindly folk lived mostly in comic books and B-movies.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

Originally from the Latin - and meaning "god from the machine" - the phrase deus ex machina was coined by arts critic Horace to describe a plot twist, first wheeled out by the Ancient Greek playwrights.

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He could tolerate her illness because there was always the false hope that stems the flow of nightmares, the belief that something miraculous could still happen, that medicine and science would produce a cure just in time, what the Greeks called their deus ex machina, a last minute device to save the day and restore our world to its balance and health.

Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

He could tolerate her illness because there was always the false hope that stems the flow of nightmares, the belief that something miraculous could still happen, that medicine and science would produce a cure just in time, what the Greeks called their deus ex machina, a last minute device to save the day and restore our world to its balance and health.

Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

He could tolerate her illness because there was always the false hope that stems the flow of nightmares, the belief that something miraculous could still happen, that medicine and science would produce a cure just in time, what the Greeks called their deus ex machina, a last minute device to save the day and restore our world to its balance and health.

Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

He could tolerate her illness because there was always the false hope that stems the flow of nightmares, the belief that something miraculous could still happen, that medicine and science would produce a cure just in time, what the Greeks called their deus ex machina, a last minute device to save the day and restore our world to its balance and health.

Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

In storytelling, when a convenient windfall or extraneous gift is given to a character rather than their having worked and built up to it within the story, that kind of easy-writing device is known as deus ex machina.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010

In storytelling, when a convenient windfall or extraneous gift is given to a character rather than their having worked and built up to it within the story, that kind of easy-writing device is known as deus ex machina.

John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed John Wellington Ennis 2010