stylistic device
Example Sentences
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“Presence” does away with all of those unnecessary frills found in contemporary horror, leaving one unusual, but very simple, stylistic device in their place: The camera is the ghost.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025
Whether she intends to actively highlight her ethnic background or uses Caribbean features as a stylistic device cannot be said for sure.
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2016
In many recent screen portrayals of women passing as men, the gender reversal has been tethered to a stylistic device.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2011
This makes them unusually vulnerable to fashion and prone to seize whatever eye-catching stylistic device they can, no matter how sterile it may be in the long run.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burns' chief stylistic device here is a periodic fade to black, an attempt to simulate the sightless charms of radio.
From Time Magazine Archive
