Sentence examples for uses the device of from inspiring English sources

This piece uses the device of an advice column, which is a time-tested humor genre.

His Citizen of the World, a series of essays originally published in The Public Ledger in 1760 61, uses the device of a Chinese traveler whose letters home comment tolerantly but shrewdly on his English experiences.

The campaign uses the device of a "modern twist on the classic fable, 'Gulliver's Travels,' " she adds, to talk about how the RDX is "spacious but not too big, powerful while also nimble, and subtly stylish" as well as how it has "the unique ability to be the right size for any situation".

A good example of this is the way in which Rawls uses the device of the "original position" to put self-interested choice at the service of the determination of the principles of justice.

Lewis is a storyteller, not an economics professor, who uses the device of a narrative about four outliers who did their homework to uncover the ugly truth about the subprime mortgage market and to detail how Wall Street put lipstick on the pig to sell it.

Brooks is an English young adult novelist who, like Robert Cormier, uses the devices of mystery and suspense to externalize the inner turmoil of adolescence.

Writing after the disastrous Sicilian expedition, Euripides used the device of the alternative Helen to expose the futility of war.

Its ads will use the device of describing a consumer as a "chief life officer".

Using the device of the familiar made unfamiliar — or the uncanny — ordinary street vignettes become noteworthy occasions.

(The drama did survive the decision of Dan Stevens to pull out after the third series, using the device of a fatal accident).

"Huckleberry Finn" is a classic because it used the device of a boy's coming of age to illuminate a nation's painful transformation.