Sentence examples for is a useful device from inspiring English sources

Sure, for those folks who don't want a BlackBerry the Peek is a useful device, but I have to wonder who actually uses these things.

The grid is a useful device for differentiation.

Jamie's friendship with Benjamin Edes, printer of The Boston Gazette, is a useful device for slipping in developments like reports of redcoats showing up on Boston Common and of debate on the Stamp Act in the English Parliament.

To imagine oneself exploring the mazy paths of a village of eccentric geniuses — or drifting, Walter Benjamin style, through a crowded Parisian arcade — is a useful device for any reader of "Baudelaire" and the rest of Calasso's sometimes daunting œuvre.

There are the unreliable narrators, and the lies as engines of plot – dissembling is a useful device for propelling a story, creating layers of awareness that rub against each other like tectonic plates.

This is a useful device for a theatre or film composer: the audience usually "gets" the structure immediately, yet the piece can extend as long as the scene demands.

For more than three years of use, author has found this to be a useful device, mainly from convenience, fuel saving, economic and also from ecological point of view.

Honest assessments, he said, "might be a useful device".

The "we" felt comfortable to me when I started out, and it was a useful device.

"The irony in Mad was a useful device to screen and protect oneself from a deadening mass culture.

It was a useful device for expressing Jacobite or anti-Jacobite sympathies with either a Stuart or a Hanover coin.