Actually thinking on it now I don't think my McGuffin is anywhere near the right one ... what's yours?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmstalker: Indiana Jones IV to be controversial?] Reference

A McGuffin is an item in the story that drives the plot or characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How to Make Your Novel into a Media Franchise, part 2] Reference

How can it be engrossing when the McGuffin is such a vile piece of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader reviews of Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger.] Reference

If you don't want details, the MacGuffin -- sometimes "McGuffin" -- is a device of some kind that gets the plot rolling in a story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Here, the McGuffin is the painting that is lent to Lenny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Review: RocknRolla] Reference

No McGuffin that is to say entirely character driven then it becomes literary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genres and what defines them] Reference

Both books feature a McGuffin, which is a term invented, I think, by Alfred Hitchock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youngman Carter] Reference

This time the McGuffin is a missing file that Hank's asked to find by an alcoholic preacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-30] Reference

The McGuffin is a high-tech machine that the Russians need and that no one wants them to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine] Reference

So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmstalker: Indiana Jones IV to be controversial?] Reference

Modec was born from Manganese Bronze's search for a "McGuffin", Lord Borwick says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Football in a way is just 'the McGuffin', he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Africa United reveals the other side of a continent] Reference

The approaching outlaws are in many ways a McGuffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles H. Green: What Madoff Teaches Us about the Road to Corruption] Reference

"Who the hell's McGuffin, an 'where'd he come from?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar On The Prowl]

They said, Can't we do it with a different McGuffin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrison Ford Not Too Old For Indiana Jones, Even Though He Is] Reference

The McGuffin in the story is a valise full of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-11] Reference

"So if the McGuffin was in the safe, the perps got it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar On The Prowl]

McGuffin was some time before he recovered the effects of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference

That delegate thing is what Alfred Hitchcock called a McGuffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Wins New Jersey] Reference

Can Lucas find a new “McGuffin” in a Cuban missile compound?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Back Catalogue: Vanity Fair] Reference

Bit of a blow that - at that stage Cadmus was still carrying the McGuffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 29th, 2005] Reference

"Real advances have been made, and the pace is quickening", McGuffin says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: September 2005 Archives] Reference

He apologizes for offending someone -- but that is the plot's McGuffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reverend Billy: Gateway to the Final Shopocalypse] Reference

Makes it hard to care about them, their client, the victim, or the McGuffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Alderman: Audio Book Review: Shadow of Power] Reference

There were things I wanted to look at before I started hunting the McGuffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar On The Prowl]

McGuffin was then bound fast to a mill post that stood on one side of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference

This is a Cold War story, but the time period and the McGuffin don't really matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-08] Reference

He apologizes for offending someone -- but that is the plot's McGuffin, a head-fake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reverend Billy: Gateway to the Final Shopocalypse] Reference

The "Black Book" is a McGuffin that drives the plot in the second half of the movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Book] Reference

It's the final McGuffin, the end of the beginning, as if the novel were saying: Satisfied?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Paths for the Novel] Reference

Which is the McGuffin of the story, a substance that can somehow re-power or reinvigorate Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: The Common Threads of Avatar] Reference

The plot centers around a McGuffin sought by a variety of rather colorful, if deadly, criminals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

The computer scare was the McGuffin, the fake detail used by magicians to keep your eye off their hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recipe for a Cooked Election] Reference

In that sense, the Rothko is the show's McGuffin, a mysterious object of wonderment which triggers action.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward] Reference

There was one particularly viral rumor, involving a McGuffin videotape with Michelle Obama, that was like the undead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allison Silver: Campaign '08 -- The Rumor Mill] Reference