Sentence examples for stage device from inspiring English sources
(An extended brawl begins as a familiar stage device but goes on so long that it flips into stranger territory).
Mr. Java, a second stage device, functions in the instant: when a cup is presented, he makes coffee and plays the news.
Apparently, the proscenium arch, stage device the film uses was not Stoppard's idea at all, but rather director Joe Wright's, which comes rather as a relief.
An important stage device used in tragedy during the 5th century bce was the crane (mēchanē), which served to fly in the gods (deus ex machina) at the end of the play.
Such is 'our' Bryn's rapport with his home-crowd audience that it seems entirely appropriate that he is lifted aloft, on wires, at the end; with another baritone in the role (Roberto de Candia, for instance, who takes over after 20 March), this will look like the contrived stage device that it is, demeaning to the rest of a polished ensemble.
The major reason for this is that the staging displays quite a few instances of exciting whimsy and creativity such as an innovative staging, with the audience seats surrounding the stage on all four sides, or the beautiful stage device showing the change of seasons.
The fashion for hoary stage devices waxes and wanes, although they have persisted more steadily in European theater than in our own.
Specifically, the behavior of parallelogram mechanisms with straight-axis hinges and of stage devices with circular-axis hinges is analyzed.
The trouble begins when Jurgen, longing to do some real magic, pays $5 million at auction for a dusty collection of books and gimcrack stage devices once owned by Houdini.
In form, Oberon was little to his taste, having too many spoken scenes and elaborate stage devices for a composer who had always worked for the unification of the theatrical arts in opera.
Science fiction far more commonly omits the unromantic aspects of space travel, especially through one of the genre's commonest stage devices, the "faster-than-light drive," or "warp drive".
