deus ex machina

Noun

Meaning

any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty

Hypernyms

Examples

"Altogether it was a fabulous coup de théâtre and a stunning deus ex machina," A. A. Gill, Hello dollies, everywhere, The Sunday Times, News Review, 27 October 1996. Source: Internet

Deus Ex Machina is such a lame device to end the season. Source: Internet

Joshi argues that King's best-known works (his supernatural novels), are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings. Source: Internet

Doyle wrote that the novel was originally conceived as a straight 'Victorian creeper' (as seen in the works of J. Sheridan Le Fanu ), with the idea of introducing Holmes as the deus ex machina only arising later. Source: Internet

In Mahagonny, though there are no supernatural occurrences for most of the opera, there is in fact a deus ex machina; God himself comes to Mahagonny right before Jimmy is executed. Source: Internet

It is only Heracles' deus ex machina appearance that persuades Philoctetes to go to Troy. Source: Internet

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