Sentences with phrase «serves as a crutch»

So the anti-monumental memorial now entails a documentary program that, among other things, serves as a crutch in the absence of effective symbolism.

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Stanley Kubrick shuns common narrative crutches such as voice - over narration or back - glancing exposition in favor of a strict antiseptic license that necessarily utilizes classical music from the likes of Johann Strauss to serve as an inner - connecting emotional aural fabric upon which the filmmaker balances mesmerizing outer - space sequences that have been copied ad nauseam ever since.

The scaffold is not meant to serve as a permanent crutch; therefore, guidance and opportunity to reflect and self - identify these connections should be encouraged during learning experiences.

What I find odd is how the skeptics use entropy and randomness as a convenience crutch, whereby they will invoke it when it serves their agenda, but dismiss it and gravitate toward some esoteric path when it doesn't.