Sentence examples for formal device from inspiring English sources

I use it as a formal device.

Like thoughts, her pieces are reiterative; she sooner makes chronology a subject than a formal device.

Today, writers including Don DeLillo and Bret Easton Ellis have similarly employed lists as a formal device in their novels.

This astonishingly inventive formal device is perfectly suited to a study of that protean chameleon, the American Wasp.

It's a neat formal device, until near the end of the book when Barr leans too hard on it.

While this formal device provides an interesting subtext for the actors to play with, it doesn't totally make sense.

Throughout, formal devices like syllabic meters, slant rhymes and a host of stanzaic structures are employed with unfussy facility.

Salary structures are more formal devices that offer a range of pay levels for different job grades.

It's all there, in other words, the basic motifs and formal devices -- except for color and touch, which were to come shortly.

At Luhring Augustine, Mr. Forg is showing immense, carelessly painted abstractions that play with the standard formal devices of Modernist painting.

Its songs were brusque, acerbic and deeply unusual, but it relies for its dizzying rush on that most traditional of formal devices: melody.