Sentence examples for borrowing a device from inspiring English sources

George Gershwin further enforced the universality of the story by borrowing a device from "Wozzeck".

The show borrows a device from "Sex, Lies & Videotape," having the students use video cameras as confessionals, but that oldie "The Harrad Experiment" also comes to mind.

The ultimate battle borrows a device from the Harry Potter books, and at the foot of the Dark Tower the voices throw up their hands: "Some moments are beyond imagination".

The plot borrows a device Ms. Smith, a Scottish author who has been shortlisted for both the Orange and Booker prizes, used in an earlier novel, "The Accidental," in which a stranger invites herself along on a family's summer vacation.

Download the MIXhalo app in the App store or if you are an Android user, borrow a device at the MIXhalo table at the entrance to the main hall.

Ask your friends and try to borrow a device before spending too much.

Borrowing a literary device from Plutarch's Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Machiavelli also used incidents from the Italian Renaissance.

The 11-minute single-shot film "La Chambre" borrows a formal device from Michael Snow's "Région Central" (1971), in which a coldly precise camera movement is used to survey a space, here a cramped one-room apartment.

To this end, he borrowed an imaginative device from the political philosopher John Rawls.

Here Christus borrows an optical device from the work of his predecessors Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, but is bolder and more accomplished with his use of light, which art professor Lola Gellman describes as having "no counterpoint in previous art".

The Tholos also uses a projection technique borrowed from a device over a century old: the zoetrope.