Sentence examples for familiar device from inspiring English sources
Of course having a theme is a familiar device too.
And the familiar device of the flashback is always risky.
Yet the old gods can send signs through a more familiar device.
MIT's work involves a new application of a familiar device: the rechargeable battery.
By Cezanne's time, painting a mountain had already become a familiar device.
Individual vignettes weave through the reunion; a familiar device that Mr. Malouf employs effectively, though with more power than subtlety.
Peele uses familiar devices and situations in order to defamiliarize them".
Of all the familiar devices in a house, the microwave has long been the laggard in usability.
But the director, Brad Leong, aiming for a light, glossy and inspirational picture, overemploys familiar devices, like ostensibly endearing tics in his heroine (among them a snorting laugh).
Above all, it is a work of daring: a popular, celebrated artist has set aside familiar devices and stepped into the unknown.
In the early days of graphical user interfaces, designers employed familiar devices, such as folders, trash cans and other objects commonplace in the office.
