Sentence examples for functions mainly as from inspiring English sources

The film's slender plot, which Mr. Gatlif conceived with his co-writer, David Trueba, functions mainly as an excuse to string together individual performances.

Today, its immediacy dulled by time and fame, it functions mainly as a visual metonym for the Great Depression.

A Christmas necklace Isabelle selects for Ruth, for instance, should be kept in mind, while a torturous trip to the dentist, during which we encounter Wilson's receding gums and many cavities, functions mainly as a descriptive tour de force.

The town functions mainly as a commercial and service centre for the Orkney Islands and is also the islands' historic county town (seat) and administrative centre.

But it all but closed in 2007 when the economy soured, pitching dozens of workers into the ranks of the unemployed, and the plant now functions mainly as a bleak backdrop to Ms. Flaherty's restaurant, the Southside Cafe, where diners gaze out at its red brick walls.

It functions mainly as interconnects or active components in fabricating nanodevices.

But, even then, business journalism still functioned mainly as a messaging service between merchants and financiers.

Under his direction the subjects are, above all, actors who function mainly as allegorical symbols.

Benetton's business model was to function mainly as a wholesaler with a large network of franchised stores.

As governor, Smith reformed the insane asylums, created the state parks system, and undertook the distinctly unglamorous task of reorganizing the state bureaucracy, which functioned mainly as a collection of warring fiefdoms.

This show's great first room aside, its heart belongs to Morris, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Mel Bochner, Michael Asher, and other cerebral types whose art works function mainly as illustrations of theoretical (and occasionally, at least in Smithson's case, poetically sublime) ideas.