It seems, however, that this politic damsel (who had been reading Machiavelli, beyond doubt), had a very ingenious little plot in her mind.

They can win points for carpentering together clever and ingenious plots, but who believes they actually make up the characters they write about?

The film, written and directed by Peter Ily Huemer, takes far too long to set up its ingenious plot.

And Mr. Coben's book has one of the more ingenious new plots around.

We still get an ingenious farcical plot in which Francis, a failed skiffle player, finds himself shuttling between two masters.

Ebert also praised the "ingenious plot, bizarre monsters, audacious cliff-hanging" and the "virtuoso final sequence".

When anybody beat me at something I would hatch an ingenious plot to bankrupt his company and, if he didn't have a company, to ruin his marriage.

The Soviets couldn't have constructed a more ingenious or insidious plot to bamboozle the citizenry.

From the beginning she manipulates her husband with the same ingenious plots that children use to get their way.

Though the ingenious plot teems with incident, the novel is often discursive.