Sentence examples for mere device from inspiring English sources
The dream is "a MacGuffin" (a mere device to trigger the plot).
Mr. Redmayne, who last month won the Olivier Award (the British version of the Tony) for his performance, keeps his character from ever seeming like a mere device.
In this clip, the overlay of images of Allen and Dederich's conversation with other residents suggests the imposing echo of their voices in his head, and it's no mere device.
They are mere device, there to keep us turning the pages while slowly, hesitantly, human beings crawl out from behind the hateful carapaces that the Eight present to the world.
If you believe that competitive advantage is wrapped up in human capital, then the change in America's people will surely affect its future far more than a mere device such as the Internet.On the other hand, it is possible to exaggerate just how quickly the melting pot is cooking this stew.
I loved the heated, overflowing talk in "Crash," most of which is wonderfully written, and I wasn't bothered by the movie's pileup of coincidences: "Crash" was a Los Angeles fable about twisted-metal automotive connection in a disconnected place — coincidence was not a mere device but what the movie was about.
Probably just that: they're mere devices — "co-speech gestures" used as aids, but not crutches.
The work's few strategies, prolonging backbends or balances on half-toe, stayed mere devices, surrounded by improvisational filler.
The elements that both works share — the lying down and the limp bodies, the running up to the lip of the stage — come to seem mere devices in "Cesena," at least when seen after "En Atendant".
The biographical back stories — Mary's father is serving a life sentence for murdering her mother; Stanley, the night editor, turns out to be concealing his African-American background — sometimes feel tacked on, mere devices to give the characters some depth.
Some stipulative definitions are nothing but mere devices of abbreviation (e.g., the definitions governing the omission of parentheses in formulas; see Church 1956, §11).
