Sentence examples for as a useful device from inspiring English sources

Now, he said, he sees it as a useful device for weaving horrifying historical details into the story line.

Their turbulent relationship reflects and amplifies social change and serves as a useful device in personalising the tempo of the times.

Hitler tolerated the temporary existence of a quasi-independent Vichy state as a useful device to help police the country and to collect the enormously inflated occupation costs imposed by the armistice.

The concept showed off the contrast in the collection – a very short dress beside a floor-length one, a black-on-white graphic print next to its negative image – but also served as a useful device for obscuring the individuality of the models.

Rawls puts forward the original position as a useful device for reaching greater reflective equilibrium.

These results suggest that the designed MN patches may serve as a useful device for transdermal delivery of hydrophilic biomolecules in a short-term manner.

At times such as these we find a useful device is "What we know – and what we don't".

It turns out to be quite a useful device, as it happens, because many of the writers at the time (like Jane Austen, for instance) lingered over the details of characters' estates and took for granted (and understood that readers took for granted) that so much wealth was associated with x annual income, implying y rate of return.

It is a useful device, as we discussed in section 5.3, but it has nothing to do with content.

There are the unreliable narrators, and the lies as engines of plot – dissembling is a useful device for propelling a story, creating layers of awareness that rub against each other like tectonic plates.

The grid is a useful device for differentiation.