11.   In both books a key plot device involves assassinating a police officer.

12.   In our pop culture, the wife or husband as economic object is now a routine Hollywood plot device.

13.   Inheritances provide a handy plot device.

14.   Instead, it simply becomes a plot device.

15.   It hangs both DeVito and Lawrence out to dry shortly after springing the plot device that brings them together.

16.   It turns out that Ellie still pines for Val, another typical Allen plot device.

17.   Often, when recreating real world events, plot devices are constructed to push stories along.

18.   Not that anyone will be looking for in-depth plot devices here, but it certainly would help keep things from coming off as one silly sight gag after another.

19.   Once a delightfully nuanced comedy about a fast-paced urban relationship, the comedy had deteriorated into a series of raucous gags, far-fetched plot devices, and stunt cameos.

20.   Take computer viruses, a popular plot device with absolutely no on-screen pizazz.