Sentence examples for subtle devices from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Others have doubted the sincerity of his professed Christianity, arguing that by the use of irony or other subtle rhetorical devices, Hobbes sought to undermine his readers' religious beliefs.

Meta, the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch of the Meta Pro, the $3,000 headset that aims to bridge the gap between fully immersive virtual reality tools such as the Oculus Rift and (relatively) more subtle wearable devices such as Google Glass.