Sentence examples for conceptual device from inspiring English sources
It reconfirms a conceptual device he favors: combining apparently unrelated things to create a deep, spreading resonance.
Developed in 1936 by the British mathematician Alan Turing, the conceptual device used a mechanism that worked with two strips of paper divided into cells.
But while the Oates character inspires the play's funniest scene -- in which Andrew tries to sum up every one of her many novels at lightning speed -- she mostly comes across as an overly cute and overly conceptual device.
For his new album, "A Perfect Day" (Kirtland Records), Mr. Schneider used a conceptual device to weed through his latest batch: to make the cut, songs had to be upbeat enough to make a good soundtrack for a perfect summer day of boating on Lake Travis.
But that's about all the iPad has in common with this conceptual device.
It uses the Orwellian concept of doublethink as a conceptual device to tease out these tensions.
The distinction between representation and expression is one of the most important conceptual devices in contemporary philosophy of art.
The studios are as spacious and light-filled as advertised, but the "driven voids" are not quite the emissaries of the celestial that they are meant to be, rather conceptual devices with which the architects, as architects sometimes do, seem to have become over-obsessed.
Yet such conceptual devices can only ever be representative of the world; they are, therefore, just as much figurations as any visual imagery, with the downside that they aren't as entertaining, informative or communicative as what McLuhan termed "the unified electrical field".
On the other hand, there's the flood of conceptual devices that Mr. Kulick has unleashed upon the show, which leave many of the performers -- led by Julia Stiles (as the cross-dressing Viola) and Jimmy Smits (as the posturing Duke) -- behaving as if they're not quite sure what hit them.
On the other hand, there's the flood of conceptual devices that Mr. Kulick has unleashed upon the show, which leave many of the performers, who also include Kristen Johnston and Christopher Lloyd, behaving as if they're not quite sure what hit them.
