Sentence examples for the central device of from inspiring English sources

As its name implies, the central device of the blog is scanner imagery; its object, the New York sandwich.

And Lily Prior's "Ardor" makes mischief with "A Midsummer Night's Dream," taking the central device of Shakespeare's play -- a love potion that has the power to make "man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees" -- and resetting it amid a filigree of deadpan magic realism.

There's plenty of movement in "Pippin" (Music Box Theater) — the central device of Diane Paulus's staging is that the story is told in circus terms — but Mr. Walker's choreography, in the Bob Fosse tradition, makes even the motions of warfare horridly sexed-up.

The icon I use to indicate this subsite is the central device of the Great Seal of the United States in the schematic version found on the cover of my copy of the book.

The icon I use to indicate this subsite is of course the central device on the Louisiana state flag.

In terms of her love life, which is one of the central devices of the series, Serena has spent most of the season pining for the emotionally unavailable Dan.

The central device is the concept of the speaking of a thing (logos) being the necessary prelude to its creation.

The magnetic transitions in the central device, which is associated with the reversal of spin polarization of the π band of the vacancy state, lead to current flip with a spin filtering efficiency up to 17% (and a maximum change by 24% upon distortion).

This recycling of the central device from Herbert Ross's "Play It Again, Sam" (based on Mr. Allen's Broadway play and featuring Humphrey Bogart as the romantic oracle) falls even flatter than the rest of the film's dialogue (by the director, Sophie Lellouche) and limping attempts at humor.

On the other hand, combining all copies of the packet and removing unnecessary duplicates in the central device can significantly reduce the total number of corrupted packets.

Pelecanos's books never have movies far from their hearts; his characters talk about them as often as they talk about music or sports, and the central plot device of "King Suckerman" is a drive-in screening of a blaxploitation classic which brings all the main characters together for a tense showdown.