Administration of the radiolabelled LPs was carried out under sedation using an only-nose exposition device coupled to a chamber equipped with a specially designed nebulizer.
Clanking prose, clunky exposition, transparent devices, telegraphed moves — the novel is "Midnight's Children" without the magic, the intellect or the grand historical occasion, a hash of narrative contrivances with very little on its mind.
The risk factors (RF) are the case mix at admission (severity of illness = SAPSII score and the pathologies), the exposition to devices at risk (mechanical ventilation and central venous catheters) and the length of ICU stay.
By shunning prosaic exposition and graphic devices, "The Lives They Lived" avoids the sentimentality, sensationalism and didacticism that make standard cable-television biographies so repetitive.
Even if the risk factors are not exactly the same, they represented the two classical risk poles: severity of illness and the exogenous exposition to specific devices.
To tell Eddie's story, Foreman eschewed the conventional dramatic devices of exposition, motivation, and resolution in linear time and space.
Some of the devices for exposition seem a little hokey now (John Ireland's writing letters in his head aloud, the music's heavily narrative lyrics), but the film's overcome those problems.
At least Sherlock, our other big international export, looks great, is based on fine source material and sounds like it's written by someone who believes in something other than blundering exposition as a storytelling device.
This is not least because, as "The Sopranos" made clear, few theatrical devices speed plot exposition along quite as neatly as a therapeutic session.
After scouring books about neurological disorders, he had what might be called a playwright's epiphany: "I thought, 'What a convenient device to get out exposition.' " The nuclear family of "Fuddy Meers" is typically American-neurotic; crazy and yet crazily devoted to one another.
