Possibly the Powell sequences might have worked better as a framing device.

That framing device initially baffled some of the show's cast, including Malek.

This is good, gray-area stuff that deserves a better framing device.

It's the same shameless framing device that helped make Titanicsimultaneously nauseating and lachrymose.

This framing device is forced, sentimental and, ultimately, becomes seeped in New Age baloney.

Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history.

Leila, like the Scheherazade, is the framing device of this book: a woman in control of her own narrative.

It adopts a fictional framing device wherein Pete Postlethwaite is the last man standing on devastated Planet Earth in 2055.

An awkward framing device, in which Anne's story is related years later by the youngest family members, only increases the ambiguity.

But the framing device of Sonia's epic search for her sister, and a fluffy love story, let down his authentic-styled drama.

And hey, I never wanted to write a story about AIDS or being gay, anyhow-thosethings were only the framing device.

Andresevic inserts numerous shots of random couples necking or embracing as a framing device, as well as utilizing cutesy chapter headings.

She has used the same framing device as in Julius Caesar: a prison in which women are putting on a Shakespeare production.

Lastly, but quite importantly, the modern-day framing device -Tonto is relating these events from middle age -never fully earns its keep.

I understand that Alexandra's part is a late addition to the script as she'll feature in a framing device that bookends the film.

I could, frankly, have even done without the framing device of Gill and her family and spent another hundred pages in Rosamond's company.