Word: nouements
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...conscience ... If I have been amused or indignant, I've neither grinned nor gnashed my teeth. In other words, I've tried to write with dignity, not out of regard for myself, but for the sake of the spectacle, the play with an obscure beginning and an unfathomable dénouement...
...want a lick at that Spanish treasure. When finally Leach has decided to seize de Bernis, torture his information out of him, de Bernis picks a fight with him, kills him, just as Sir Henry Morgan's boats sail into the bay. In the dénouement de Bernis turns out to be made of stainless steel, as Priscilla, to Major Sands's disgust, had spotted from the first...
...again. But she is very different now from the scornful little female Ishmael she has been. The temptation to be with boys and girls of her own age is too much for her; she meets Gordon sometimes, goes to an occasional party. But the dénouement is not far off. Pelter's enemy Corning discovers Pelter's secret, that all Mirthful Haven but no summer visitor knows. He tips off the revenue cutter. That night Pelter is led into a trap, tries to escape, is shot. Then everything comes out. Mrs. Corning rescues...
...great wealth, the story and its spirit might easily have been suffered to lapse into the Poor Little Rich Girl stereotype. When Johnny Case, deserting Julia Seton simply so he can have a holiday, is followed to Paris by Julia's little sister, a typical talkie dénouement might have seemed inevitable...
...standard thriller-drama are aped and inexpertly lampooned. Playwright Frank Martins had unfortunately assumed that melodrama, if badly done, automatically becomes satire. Acted by an incompetent cast, Find The Fox provides three murders, a hissing Japanese, an unscrupulous seducer, a rube detective, sundry other familiar types. Dénouement: the scene is really an informal insane asylum for actors who have grown wool-witted from performing in thriller shows...