Sentence examples for a common device in from inspiring English sources

The deliberate ambiguity employed to collect as many signatures as possible in Busan, a common device in international affairs, has led to confusion regarding mandate.

Role-playing is a common device in self-portraiture, and it is used by several artists to establish desired or alternative identities.

Some restructuring specialists have suggested that bondholders be handed shares in the most troubled banks through debt-for-equity swaps, a common device in non-financial corporate workouts.

Its dramatic lighting, a common device in Bitti's work, suggests that aspects of the Sevillian painting he had seen during his sojourn in Spain influenced his work.

Because Alice has such a faltering grip on reality and Lucy willfully denies reality, both make for unreliable narrators — a common device in the currently hot publishing genre of psychological suspense (Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl," Paula Hawkins's "The Girl on the Train").

Although alliteration is a common device in almost all poetry, the only Indo-European languages that used it as a governing principle, along with strict rules of accent and quantity, are Old Norse, Old English, Old Saxon, Old Low German, and Old High German.

Sciarretto continued to note that towards the end of the song, the singer does not show any restraint, and that it is a common device used in song production as it allows the singer to build tension.

Just stick the card in a slot and the door opens (a common device also used in hotels).

Measure the stress level in his voice on the telephone with a common device you can buy in any surveillance-equipment store.

The virtual terminal is a common device for all implements in the cabin and all the implements may upload their user interface to that.

Despite of different types of heat exchangers, single row or double row heat exchangers are still common device in different industries due to the construction simplicity and the maintenance cost.