Sentence examples for the usual devices from inspiring English sources

Although it lacks most of the usual devices that indicate a director's point of view, it's hard to imagine a more personal film.

As the play begins, he steps forward to greet us, looking tweedy and slightly mad-professorial, and delivers a fresher-than-usual introductory speech in which he thanks us for turning off the usual devices (yawn).

He leaves aside the usual devices of the horror genre —no music, shock sound effects, special effects, or gore— evoking feelings and scenes verbally rather than showing them, but he does employ Hitchcockian "MacGuffins" such as chance encounters, "clues," and the blackmail plot-line.

The program also included "Yo Johann," "Pacific Dances" and "Contra Pose," a fascinating exploration of pattern achieved through every means but the usual device of moving bodies through space.

One element of its success, I think, is that it inverts the usual device of arguing that even a king deserves a personal life — in this movie, the message is that he really doesn't, and bravery lies in doing the job well, no matter how much he'd rather not.

A bit of the spell it casts can be attributed to the genre's usual devices — the tempting conundrum, the red herrings, the slices of low and high life — but French is also hunting bigger game.

In those cases, other employees would only be able to access the account from their usual devices, or would need to get the one-time code from the administrator– a hassle that may discourage brands from using the security feature altogether.

Impinging molecular flows on substrates are then calculated for the two usual device symmetries cylindrical and spherical, and in case of fixed or rotating substrates.

Formal RRUS was performed by radiologist with usual devices in the radiology department.

The calculated activation energy (59kJmol−1) and preexponential factor (1930s−1) are in good agreement with those obtained by other authors operating in more usual devices, but needing the solving of more sophisticated models.

The infidel's soul, violently torn from the body and failing interrogation by the angels Munkar and Nakīr, will suffer torment in the grave until the day when it will take up its place in hell, there to dine on bitter fruit and pus and to be roasted and boiled with all the usual infernal devices for as long as God sees fit.