Sentence examples for and the device of from inspiring English sources

These include not only "Our Town," which is summoned by the production's bare-bones, town-hall set (by John Lee Beatty) and the device of having characters confide chummily in the audience.

The supermarket cafe they work in is described with humorous insight and the device of another minor car crash is just right, but this plot is soppier and lacks the startling imagery of the first.

That is underlined by the theme of the campaign, "They all start somewhere," and the device of a backstage pass that symbolizes the access the viewers are being offered to the process from beginning to end.

(No children appear on the stage, and the device of parents calling to their sons and daughters becomes quickly laborious.) My guess is that theatergoers who have gone through the preschool derby with their children will find a great deal more to laugh at than those, like me, who have not.

It does for present communication a service approaching in importance the introduction of underground conduits in the eighteen-eighties, when overhead wires were becoming impossibly numerous in all big cities and the device of burying them was necessary to further multiplication.

And the device of mistaken information, it's right from 'Romeo and Juliet.' I knew I wanted it to be visceral and just f***ing heartbreaking".

How secure are their devices and the devices of other advisers with influence on other matters?

They found no comparison between the blink-fast technology of today and the devices of the past.

Hedges, a reporter for The Times and for 15 years a foreign correspondent, admits to war addiction and swears it off, stepping back to reflect on the carnage he witnessed and the devices of those whose purpose war serves.

Brands need to start offering employees and customers the opportunity to use the channels and the devices of their choice.

The love of my people hath appeared firm, and the devices of my enemies frustrate.