Sentence examples for subtle device from inspiring English sources

His voice becomes a subtle device in this world of espionage, counterespionage and interrogation.

He got the constitutional majority he needed by the subtle device of imprisoning all the elected communist deputies.

Happily, the stage version lightens up a little on the cute, smart-alecky asides ("My fevered brain seethed with the effort to come up with an infinitely subtle device to implant the air rifle indelibly into my parents' consciousness without their being aware of it"), making room for the music and allowing the story mostly to speak for itself.

By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, "We're in this together".

The over-all effect is to compound the comedy of peril, and to suggest that our mortal initiatives, however brave, will usually be humbled and outwitted by the less subtle devices of the brutes.

South Carolina has a 250+ year history of adopting myriad means ranging from murder to subtle devices that its leaders knew would have a disproportionate effect designed to make it harder for blacks to vote and elect candidates of their choice.

Beyond the comparison to great madmen in history, however, let's look at what other subtle devices make this illustration an outstanding piece of propaganda: >> To enhance his dangerousness, this drawing depicts Zarqawi as much younger and more fit than he was.

The National has also added a subtle new device: odd and shifting meters that move the songs away from the subliminal comforts of 4/4.

In addition, Killen made the version of Michael's reality the viewer is watching obvious with a subtle visual device; in the reality where his son is alive (the "green reality"), the background is layered with a watery blue filter (Michael often wears blue in the series).

It's not the most subtle of devices but it does allow a break from the free indirect style.

Subtle spatial devices animate the individual pictures; figures of saints, their two-dimensionality emphasized by their outlines, appear in niches sunk in the wall or lean forward in the interior curves of arches.