Role-playing is a common device in self-portraiture, and it is used by several artists to establish desired or alternative identities.
The user interface for our project is the Wiimote, which is a common device and extremely safe unless you throw it at your television).
The virtual terminal is a common device for all implements in the cabin and all the implements may upload their user interface to that.
This is a common device when introducing mainstream viewers to an "unusual" setting (see Doc Martin and Cornwall, Northern Exposure and Alaska, Top of the Lake and New Zealand, to name but a few) but it also creates a sense of distance, with the local people often treated as specimens or curiosities.
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.
In particular, the possibility of psychic conflict, especially that which could generate competing motives for action, had been a common device in ancient and medieval theories for distinguishing among passions, kinds of passions, and faculties of the soul in general.
Criminalizing and blaming the victim is a common device used to trivialize the fact that black and innocent women, men and children die every day in Brazil and become statistical data.
The painted surface is divided into quarters horizontally and sevenths vertically; this grid is used to organise the elaborate grouping of characters, and was a common device at the time.
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.
