deus ex machina in English
In Racine's account it is this second Iphigenia who sacrifices herself; in this way Racine avoided the deus ex machina of Diana's appearance in Euripides' tragedy.
Use "deus ex machina" in a sentence
1. As if some deus ex machina had wrought these changes overnight.
2. Ghost lineages are frankly a Contrivedsolution, a deus ex machina required by the cladistic method.
3. Amplexus (now known as Hawks&Wolves) song Handbook for the Recently Deceased off Deus Ex Machina.
4. Monnet had chosen America as the deus ex machina that would propel Europe toward unity.
5. Is there a deus ex machina, a device that will rescue the rich world from its plight?
6. Instead of a fairy godmother--deus ex machina--Cinderella receives a branch of a hazel bush from her father.
7. Beijing is frantically searching for a magic formula, a meteorological deus ex machina, to clear its skies for the 2008 Olympics.
8. He Bombasted us with this deus ex machina, which is played masterfully because it is not out of character of sato
9. For example, with this household project, he looked around once and remarked, "This really turned out well. " As if some deus ex machina had wrought these changes overnight.
10. Rising government debt is a Ponzi scheme that requires an ever-growing population to assume the burden—unless some deus ex machina, such as a technological breakthrough, can boost growth.
11. Anticlimax (plural Anticlimaxes) A failed or reverse climax, particularly: (narratology) An unsatisfying resolution to a narrative, usually owing to a deus ex machina or similarly trivial resolution of the main conflict
12. Instead of the turbulent conflicts of various gods in a heterogeneous landscape of deities (whether hierarchically ruled by the father-god Zeus or a quasi anarchic setting of manifold deities), the deus ex machina embodies singular and sovereign protection by a single autonomous deity.