...them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...nothing human ever was delivered, is the business of a modern dramatist. This is a preview, in Johnson's periodic cadences, of the Hollywood master-plan:...

...them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...nothing human ever was delivered, is the business of a modern dramatist. For this, probability is violated, life is misrepresented, and language is depraved....

...them with oppositions of interest,5 and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was 1 'Domestic': 1. 'Belonging to the house; not relating to things publick'. 2. 'Private; done at home;...

...have mentioned triadic series in the passage, to which one must add the flourishing of paired terms ("to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow," and so forth). Architectonic prose of various sorts often tends to a fondness for groupings of two...

...also ATTIC. positions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was delivered ..." More soberly, the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) denned plot as "the intelligible...