Sentences with phrase «clever device»

It relies more on mystery and suspense, using clever devices to throw the audience off the trail of the real killer.

It doesn't matter how clever the device is, if it doesn't know where you want to go, it can't tell you the best way to get there.

In their seemingly clever device of moving to the center» which meant in practice disavowing a fundamental critique of American capitalism's deficiencies» the Clintonite Democrats were guilty of the «purest folly.»

I've had a couple of people complain about cats pooping in their flower beds and such, and I refer them to the Contech Scarecrow, a devilishly clever device combining a motion detector and garden sprinkler.

Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).

A tough, clever device called a hydrocast carousel can autonomously gather seawater samples from a mile down.

When combined with clever devices that utilize the PS Vita's every function, the paper world comes to life in a very real way.

People love Google and Amazon; they've both learned a lot of Apple's tricks and released clever devices that people enjoy using.

This clever device streams live audio and video from your doorstep to your smartphone or tablet.

These uses of narrative in moral discourse are more than clever devices.

Leave it to this clever device to make sure your nursery room is set at a 50 % humidity level.

These clever devices project constellations or little cartoon scenes on the ceiling while playing music for a specified amount of time (usually 15 - 20 minutes).

This clever device is the crème de la crème of garbage bins and is designed specifically for diapers.

Danish energy planners saw the project as a clever device for marketing the feasibility and desirability of renewable energy.

Gutierrez uses a clever device — having the story not only narrated, but designed around a group of school kids visiting a museum.

I guess my point with Frozen River is if you are going to go misery bleak, then I need more than a clever device to propel character motivations forward in that bleakness, it needs to be the bleakness I know from experience, the ennui of life, and to do that you need to go whole hog and dispense with plot altogether.

Even when the top is up, you're surrounded by a lot of glass thanks to the big windshield and side windows and the integrated glass moonroof, which is quite a clever device.

It's a clever device that is easily removed and has a release on the driver's side to open up like a reverse - facing lid over the rear seats for stowage of items that won't fit in the boot.

Helping to keep this low - flying airfoil straight and level is a fully independent suspension, with coil springs and anti-sway bars, that employs some clever devices.

Abbott employs a clever device to inform the reader of the backstory.

This clever device is designed for note - taking and sketching as well as ebook reading.

The first romance author who thought of introducing the heroine sitting at her dressing table assessing her looks in the mirror was using a clever device to let the reader know what the heroine looked like while using a single POV.

Having Jack narrate is a clever device: through his innocent eyes and ears, we gradually learn how he and Ma come to be in this situation and what fills their days.

Invented by Veterinary Behaviorist, Dr. Sophia Yin, this clever device not only helps dog owners to train their dogs, but also enhances the relationship between owners and dogs as it is very user friendly.

Those who had the good fortune to realize that dream are paired in his paintings with those who did not, by using a clever device of juxtaposing the two extreme lives in full color versus half tones.

This is a clever device as it anchors the whole painting and brings the space up to the picture plane.

We've had this clever device since Bell Labs produced the first model in 1954.

Or a clever device to make the «conventional» form of offsetting look quite sane and more appealing?

The designers at Science and Sons have done a terrific job of value engineering the Phonophone; I think it looks more elegant and appears to work even better than the original; they claim that «This clever device amplifies the volume emitted from an iPhone internal speaker roughly 4x (approx. 60 decibels).»

This clever device opens the bottles and catches the caps until you decide to release the prisoners by removing the flexible base to make room for more victims.

Once its identified what might be keeping you awake at night this clever device pings a personalised daily feedback straight to your smart phone or tablet, awarding a sleep score and suggestions on how to improve it in order to get the best night's sleep, every night.

Mixing small - scale patterns from the same palette is a clever device for enhancing a white kitchen scheme without being too dominating.