framing device

Without a framing device, the stories themselves became the focus.

It is in fact a framing device for his argument.

I really like her and, as you know, the whole psychiatric framing device.

A framing device reveals that the story is being read from a book.

The film uses a framing device set in modern Russia.

The historical events are seen through a framing device set in the contemporary 1940s.

But the long framing device at the beginning and end of the movie is lame.

Except for a narrative framing device, the film has almost no dialogue.

Gates: I actually no longer use "art" as the framing device.

As was usual in Wallace’s work, we encounter these characters through several framing devices.

We're all for creative new framing devices, but not when they are abandoned minutes into the episode.

A framing device has Clark looking back at his early years on the force via an interview with a reporter.

The second half is stronger, with a framing device about intergalactic travel.

Mostly though it's a framing device for self-contained bits of business.

Philip telling her about Endo is the framing device for the story.

It is told via the framing device of Moonshadow, now 120, looking back on his earlier life.

The program relies on a nice framing device to lure kids to the keyboard.

He simply looks and observes, avoiding voice-over, talking heads, any kind of obvious framing devices.

The game's framing device is that it is a comic book being read.

In order to bring them to light, he has been conceiving structures and framing devices for their presentation.

The character of the Common Man serves as a narrator and framing device.

The framing device is that the play is being put on by the inmates of a women’s prison.

This framing device opens the film and does not reappear until the very end during the credit roll.

As so often with this company, the clowning and the framing devices are all bombast.

In the current play, his war wounds are merely background, and a framing device for the play.