Some of this elaborately plotted system never emerged from planners' doodles but a surprising amount of it can be seen in concrete, brick and tile in spur lines leading to nowhere.

Becoming a target for elaborately plotted merchandising campaigns is sure to make any viewer feel less like a fan, and more like part of the food chain.

One might say Mr. Kaufman staged a devilish coup, elaborately plotted, to oust a third-grade class president.

This intricate literary thriller, elaborately plotted and superlatively researched, casts real Restoration figures in a mystery about the murder of an Oxford don (and a much greater crime to which it is adjoined).

Elaborately plotted and pieced together, the paintings owe a debt to Diego Rivera.

Boucher and McComas praised the novel, saying that Clarke handled scientific detail "with so sensitive a poetic understanding that this simple factual narrative is more absorbing than the most elaborately plotted galactic epic."

As with "Chinatown," Mr. Towne has chosen to make his points within the framework of an elaborately plotted melodrama.

The Secret Service attempt to prevent an elaborately plotted assassination attempt on the President.

The elaborately plotted sci-fi romantic comedy barely touches on reality, and therein lies its wispy charm.

Film historian "Film News" Anandan called it "one of the most elaborately plotted melodramas in the Indian cinema".