Sentence examples for borrowed the device of from inspiring English sources

Brandt further borrowed the device of the fool, who was allowed to utter criticism without getting into serious trouble.

The historical society borrowed the device, a cyclotron, from the Smithsonian Institution, which has had it since 1965.

Bessai, who borrows the device, also started his directing in the theatre.

Much as his talented contemporary Kazuo Ishiguro did in "The Remains of the Day," Mr. Barnes has used the device of the unreliable narrator — borrowed, it would seem, in both cases, from Ford Madox Ford's classic, "The Good Soldier" — to explicate this phenomenon.

The game borrowed Defender's device of allowing the player to control the direction of flight and along with the earlier TwinBee (1985), is an early archetype of the "cute 'em up" subgenre.

Gilbert also borrows from his 1870 opera, The Gentleman in Black which includes the device of baby-switching.

In this 1947 shot, the device of placing Grey against her own exaggerated shadow was one that Anthony might have borrowed from the fashion photographer Horst.

The decision to borrow the title of Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography is more than a poetic device.

He uses his rental car as a deceptively simple framing device, borrowing the built-in borders of its rear-view and side-view mirrors, windshield, and side windows.

We borrow the concept of joint sparse model (JSM) from SRC to dictionary learning.

Netflix needs to borrow the marketing prowess of Salesforce.com.com