Sentence examples for standard devices from inspiring English sources

We began to see how untrustworthy are radio's standard devices how fragmentary the story they tell.

You'd think it would become tiresome to review the repetition of pleats, harness bodices, columnar sheaths and other standard devices.

What is undeniable to proponents and detractors alike is the show's willful avoidance of television drama's standard devices in favor of an almost total reliance on intricate writing.

But in detaching "Bucking the Tiger" from the standard devices of storytelling -- like dramatic conflict, the development of character, suspense -- Mr. Olds has detached it also from narrative momentum.

His most famous work, Mathematical Psychics (1881), presented his new ideas on the generalized utility function, the indifference curve, and the contract curve, all of which have become standard devices of economic theory.

Other standard devices of this poetry are the kenning, a figurative name for a thing, usually expressed in a compound noun (e.g., swan-road used to name the sea); and variation, the repeating of a single idea in different words, with each repetition adding a new level of meaning.

Now, and for at least the past 40 years, exposure is the standard device of new theatres.

Their well is the standard device, a small cylinder sunk into the earth with a hand pump above ground.

This mystification game is a standard device of suspense literature, but nobody did it quite like Christie.

The opera relies heavily on the standard device of simultaneous ensembles to portray tensions between the White Town and Colored Town neighborhoods.

The company's partner is based in Madrid, so Mr. Addo uses a standard device to make international calls over his computer network.