Sentence examples for a convenient device to from inspiring English sources

By the climax you feel LaBute is simply using 9/11 as a convenient device to dignify an end-of-the-affair play.

Her madness, at times, seems a convenient device to bring the story to a conclusion while still following the fairy-tale motif -- as does the happily-ever-after ending.

After scouring books about neurological disorders, he had what might be called a playwright's epiphany: "I thought, 'What a convenient device to get out exposition.' " The nuclear family of "Fuddy Meers" is typically American-neurotic; crazy and yet crazily devoted to one another.

Likewise, constructing a proper procedure, or even a convenient device, to measure the character of a player facing a game situation is a promising and challenging project.

Guidance on how to achieve and maintain euvolemia in individual PD patients is hampered by the absence of a convenient device to measure volume status, and by the lack of insight in the prevalence of and factors associated with volume overload.

And because of the iPad mini's key areas of difference compared to the iPad (over 50percentt lighter, 23percentthinnerer), it's a much more convenient device to pick up and put down frequently while watching TV programming.

For that purpose the space which is between a rheometer's plates is the most convenient device to monitor this reaction concerning a chemical and viscoelastic point of view.

She is not inclined to accept the idea that they were the result of tropical infections, caught on the Beagle, and is tempted to see them as a convenient device for allowing him to refuse invitations to speak, to stay at home and to go on working steadily.

But people close to Mr. Bush said his mother-in-law, Jenna Welch, served as a convenient device for him to distance himself from the Enron debacle and to appear more empathetic to its investors and employees than to the wealthy business executives who escaped the Enron collapse with flush bank accounts.

It is a convenient device which helps to visualise how colours relate to each other and what, in theory, happens when they are mixed.

My view is that Mr. Joyce did not intend the book to be looked upon as the dream of any one character, but that he regarded the dream form with its shiftings and changes and chances as a convenient device, allowing the freest scope to introduce any material he wished and suited to a night-piece.