Sentence examples for a potent device from inspiring English sources

And Ms. Mangan accentuates the distances between people with a potent device: when characters speak, they don't face each other but stand side by side, addressing the audience, as if conversation itself were a thing of rough crossings.

Piranesi's engravings were such a potent framing device for the cultural imagination of the 18th century that the actual ruins had to compete with them.

The critic adds that the blackface makeup "becomes a potent theatrical device" and concludes that the production is a "dark, demanding staging that speaks all too clearly to our time".

Android phones, some Blackberries and phones running older Microsoft operating systems all are readily penetrated by Gamma's spyware, called FinSpy, which can turn your smart phone into a potent surveillance device.

But it would potentially make Juul, a potent nicotine delivery device, far more appealing to smokers.

Giving a narrator the freedom to beam up stories from anywhere in time and space is a potent and liberating device for an artist with a strong vision and tight focus.

This is why "hostile takeovers"— takeovers without the approval of current management — deserve special attention as a potentially potent governance device.

"Mobile devices can be a potent intervention method," said Euan Ashley, DPhil, FRCP, professor of cardiovascular medicine and senior author of the paper.

If you missed the spots, you might be wondering how you go about advertising a vaporising device designed to deliver a potent parasympathomimetic alkaloid into a person's lungs.

Device treatment is likely to have a potent placebo effect.

When it hears an approaching vehicle, it launches a device into the air that uses a heat sensor to direct a potent projectile down at the target.