Sentence examples for devise anything from inspiring English sources

"You could not devise anything like them.

The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubber-neck, ticket-scalper, lame-duck, pork-barrel, boot-legger or steam-roller (in its political sense).

Vampire Weekend's fast, Web-driven ascent may be reflected in the band's publishing company name, Vampire Weekend Music, which implies it didn't have enough time to devise anything more clever.

Rivals have failed to devise anything that can boast a fraction of this universal snappiness: the Lego headquarters, in Billund, sports a fabulous display of Lego ripoffs, including Bildo, Blocko, Loko, Moto, Klip, Polly Plus, Hobby Land, Playgo, LocBlocs, OK, NA, and the tragically unambitious Toy.

Andy Dufresne never proved himself capable of devising anything like this, but the moral of our stories is the same: Never abandon hope, even when you are banged up in a maximum security jail.

If you want to change the world politically, diplomacy is about listening, otherwise you won't be able to devise solutions to anything.

It says: "You and I are so far superior to this wretch that anything I devise is acceptable as long as it is droll".

Nolan's Gotham City is as dark as anything devised by Fritz Lang.

The invention that resulted, the first reliable machinegun, was better at killing than anything devised by man before.Gatling's gun sent some 200 shots per minute out of six barrels, which were rotated by means of a hand crank.

"My aim is to achieve the totally abstract," he said, and the works on view in this small show, dating from the 1960's and 70's and mostly in black and white, come close to that goal, if anything devised by human hand can really be considered "totally abstract".

The making of "Ahlam," which was shot in 2004, is itself as dramatic a tale as anything Hollywood could devise.