But in these films, memory is simply a device, a way of ordering the story-telling.
He says the "renovation" is unnecessary, claiming it is simply a device to circumvent rules protecting tenants.
A cynic — never us, to be sure — might wonder if an eye-catching sign was simply a device to lure customers.
It's "simply a device," he writes, "a defense, to obscure the black, blinding, murderous rage and sorrow at the core of this whole story".
The show is brilliantly unexpected – the first episode provides a wonderful subversion of the friendship between a gay man and a straight woman – but the weed is simply a device to explore these disparate characters.
Democrats argue the current version of the bill – passed originally by the House of Representatives – is simply a device to try to force Barack Obama to abandon his proposed administrative relief for millions of undocumented migrants who are threatened with deportation.
In "The Sister", an elderly factory worker is invited to fantasise about a co-worker's young, gorgeous sister; only when the two men are sitting together on a sofa, stoned and snogging, does he realise that the sister never actually existed and was simply a device to lure him there.
It isn't meant to: it's simply a device to show (prove) how wretchedly bigoted everyone in this rainbow coalition actually is, from the black teenagers who hurl insults at Taslima to the white F.B.I. agent who comes cataclysmically knocking on her family's door.
Turns out it's simply a device to seal in all body warmth below the neck.
Johnston stressed that the scheme was simply a device to reduce the amount of bank debt facing the club.
