It's a self-conscious device, Mr. Pitt's mockery of himself and the responses to his less-than-successful attempt at an Irish brogue in "The Devil's Own".
Color reproduction isn't great and viewing angles are actually quite bad, but that's to be expected out of such a price-conscious device.
Since their customers were not particularly cost-conscious, device-makers were able to run themselves with luxurious inefficiency.
Beck, lacking a soul singer's voice, substitutes more self-conscious devices: splintered lyrics with an intriguing fragment in every line, music that ricochets from hip-hop to banjo breakdowns.
An actress (Liv Ullmann) loses the power of speech; her nurse (Bibi Andersson) obsessively tries to help her recover; a strange kind of personality exchange takes place, as Bergman marshals a battery of cinematically self-conscious devices to underscore the fictional nature of what he is presenting.
Motorola is continuing the Maxx line of power-conscious devices — it's functionally the same phone as the Ultra except it's a little fatter at 8.5mm, a features a sealed battery capable of up to 48 hours of continued usage.
They also approach the unconscious through conscious, preparatory devices, from body to soul, from the real to the unreal, from naturalism to abstraction.
Hiberno-English was usually deployed as a highly self-conscious comic device, and stage Irishmen, such as Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan in Macklin's Love à la Mode (1759) and Sir Lucius O'Trigger in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), delighted 18th-century audiences, including Irish ones.
Boeing isnt the first company to surprise us with news of a security-conscious mobile device — Dell surprised us late last year when they announced that the their discontinued (and oft-maligned) Dell Streak 5 was the first Android device to be given the official seal of approval by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Most of the deliberately self-conscious stage devices, which were integral to the play, and necessary to give full dimension to the main character, were gone, and the TV version became largely a story about an interesting woman dying of cancer).
