Sentence examples for structural device from inspiring English sources

Because these churches were too small to contain interior columns for the support of the cupola, the Pskov builders developed the structural device of recessive rows of corbel arches (stepped archlike structures built out from the walls) for the support of cupola drums and cupolas.

Repetition turns out to be the main structural device.

For example, repetition is an important structural device.

On "Portrait of Tracy," by Jaco Pastorius, he worked a short motif into a sound structural device.

The movie is formally plotted, with many symmetries and variations; children without parents is the dominant structural device.

A large part of the problem is that Strobl himself emerges less as a character than a structural device.

Pärt's structural devices, too, recall the English composers' cornucopia of canons, retrogrades and inversions.

But Nolan's deployment of these structural devices is enjoyably distinctive.

Many of the chapter headings are retained, used as Brecht-style structural devices.

How is ballet to tell stories in the long wake of its giving up such overt structural devices as mime?

The toys she favors in her paintings are human and animal figures, not mechanical or structural devices.