Sentence examples for as a structural device from inspiring English sources

Agee used contrasting narratives as a structural device to link the past and present; italicized passages describing the family's life before the fatal automobile accident are incorporated into the primary narrative of the crash and its immediate effects.

A large part of the problem is that Strobl himself emerges less as a character than a structural device.

As usual, Mr. Martins has something new to say about ballet partnering, and he has a structural device to enrich the eye when one dancer, Jennie Somogyi, becomes the odd woman out among two couples -- Margaret Tracey with Nikolaj Hübbe and Yvonne Borree with Sébastien Marcovici.

But one element of Beethoven's work that must also have gotten through to him was the ingenious use of motifs (mini-themes, sometimes just a gesture with a few notes or a characteristic rhythm) as a structural organizing device.

We also explored the effectiveness of the linear MSA as a structural control device.

Myth is both a story and a fundamental structural device used by storytellers.

On "Portrait of Tracy," by Jaco Pastorius, he worked a short motif into a sound structural device.

Yi uses a recurring structural device, the layering of his own persona with an incongruous first person narrator, which "An Anonymous Island" follows.

This paper investigates the potential of the DSF system as a structural motion control device in tall buildings.

It is a portrait of madness as a form of unbearable clarity—"human kind/Cannot bear very much reality," wrote Eliot and it is also a powerful structural device.

For example, repetition is an important structural device.