41.   At the end of the year, the nature-strikes-back schlock plot device was utilized once again in Mimic.

42.   But for Dickens, coincidence was a plot device, not a belief system.

43.   Soderbergh also scrapped a plot device that would have used a series of placards with tips on surviving hotel fires.

44.   They are plot devices rather than people.

45.   This watchdog is a plot device rather than a real person, even though he does bring the story to a satisfying, if maybe too neat conclusion.