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Contrived plot solution
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deus ex machina
Word definitions for deus ex machina in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that he or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Modern Latin translation of Greek theos ek mekhanes , literally "the god from the machina," the device by which "gods" were suspended over the stage in Greek theater (see machine ). The fem. is dea ex machina .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve and insoluble difficulty
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Deus Ex Machina was a computer game designed and created by Mel Croucher and published by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum in October 1984 and later converted to other popular 8-bit formats. The game was the first to be accompanied by a fully synchronised ...
Usage examples of deus ex machina.
The mob had stopped staring at the deus ex machina and was now marching once again toward the children.
Otherwise it looks like a deus ex machina (which of course it is).
The urge to laugh had dissipated when he realized that Annie might know everything about the deus ex machina except the name.
The variable, the martian, the deus ex machina, was out of the picture.
He was deus ex machina, the angel who descends on a string to set everything right, and incidentally to ruin the story.
If no deus ex machina appears at this interesting juncture, the whole turns into a sad, sad, long-drawn-out, ultimately squalid tragedy.