Aware of his conspicuous devices, Ophüls draws comedy from them, too, as when, because of the double exposures by which the ghosts are created onscreen, other characters seem to walk through them, and the late husband claims that they make him itch all over.
Moore's Law, and continual miniaturization, should help wearables evolve from conspicuous devices to stealth assistive technology.
Traditionally, when we find intertextuality in artwork it's intentional -- a clearly "authored" effect that's achieved through conspicuous devices like allusion and quotation.
It supports the building's most conspicuous urbanistic device: a grid of louvered light boxes that illuminate the galleries below.
In this case conspicuous medical device use might have caused discomfort because it reminded him of his own age and mortality.
Oliver's dominant form, however, is free verse, and her most conspicuous formal devices are repetition, parallelism, and especially anaphora ("Meanwhile the world goes on. / Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain . . .").
This rather, shall we say, conspicuous-looking device is the miniCaster.
The man who murders his way to the crown may be the most conspicuous human explosive device on view in Sulayman Al Bassam's lively and often savagely funny Arabic-language variation on Shakespeare's "Richard III," which runs through Friday at the Harvey Theater as part of the academy's Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas festival.
A few conspicuous effects and devices, such as split screens, a couple of brief phantom-like apparitions, and the actors' direct address to the camera of the text of letters that they've written, play like winks and nods to the sort of audacity and originality that Desplechin may admire but doesn't approach or even attempt.
It is well known from diverse theories and elegant experiments related to nano materials that the quantum effects are conspicuous for nano devices, especially when the transport dimension reaches a threshold value which is so-called the Fermi wavelength.
