Sentence examples for device to evoke from inspiring English sources

The metadata could be used, variously, to determine whether multiple people were together in a particular place; to track the movements of a device; to evoke the breadth and depth of the connections between people; or, combined with other forms of data analysis, to identify the names behind the numbers.

Nash gave "Bigger Than the Beatles" a C-minus rating, calling it "just a lame device to evoke the names of beloved rock heroes".

With a foot seemingly in the beyond (though by all accounts, Resnais is well and busy — he's finishing work on his new film, "Aimer, Boire et Chanter" — based on Alan Ayckbourn's play "Life of Riley"), the director calls upon increasingly audacious visual devices to evoke it.

Most places shown in the photographs lack people -- a fairly clichéd visual device meant to evoke a sense of mystery or a sacred, spiritual aura.

As a series of similarly bordered, skittery, black ink drawings on paper inspired by the calligraphy of a Sung dynasty letter suggests, this framing device is meant to evoke the Chinese practice of mounting drawings on larger pieces of fabric for formal display.

The QLF device transmits light to evoke fluorescence.

As far as the book is concerned, this disability functions as a device to give him "character" and to evoke pity in the reader.

Moving around the instrument in choreographed patterns, the players draw nylon filaments, rosinated sticks and an array of other devices called exciters across the strings to evoke composed music.

To evoke an air of nebulous mystery, the director used a device he last employed in a 1980s production of Turandot: horizontal bars suspended above the stage that, in this instance, reflected the lights in golden sparks.

In addition, technical devices are not directly comparable to the manual skill of acupuncture, and they are also liable to evoke different patient belief in treatment effects [ 36].

A favourite poetic device is uḷḷuṟai (i.e., metonymy, a figure of speech consisting of the description of one thing used to evoke that of another with which it is associated).