In Mr. Zaillian's velvet-wallpaper version, neither the politics nor the family intrigue makes much sense.

McGrath's latest novel is a sinister web of family intrigue.

And that's when this seemingly insignificant business squabble, with its tortured tale of family intrigue, took on a whole new character.

Why is this melancholy 100-year-old play about family intrigue and frustrated love proving so attractive to late-20th-century film makers?

Since this is a telenovela, much of the drama focuses on romantic melodrama and family intrigue.

Ms. Yaw's testimony was the climax of a dramatic day in what promises to be a trial filled with family intrigue and macabre moments.

Her mind wandered off into realms of family intrigue.

For all its family intrigues, the novel is more than a domestic saga.

Returning home after her brother's mysterious death, a woman is embroiled in family intrigue.