Story in a nested narration that brackets one or more embedded stories.
1Possibly the Powell sequences might have worked better as a framing device.
2That framing device initially baffled some of the show's cast, including Malek.
3This is good, gray-area stuff that deserves a better framing device.
4It's the same shameless framing device that helped make Titanicsimultaneously nauseating and lachrymose.
5This framing device is forced, sentimental and, ultimately, becomes seeped in New Age baloney.
6Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history.
7Leila, like the Scheherazade, is the framing device of this book: a woman in control of her own narrative.
8It adopts a fictional framing device wherein Pete Postlethwaite is the last man standing on devastated Planet Earth in 2055.
9An awkward framing device, in which Anne's story is related years later by the youngest family members, only increases the ambiguity.
10But the framing device of Sonia's epic search for her sister, and a fluffy love story, let down his authentic-styled drama.
11And hey, I never wanted to write a story about AIDS or being gay, anyhow-thosethings were only the framing device.
12Andresevic inserts numerous shots of random couples necking or embracing as a framing device, as well as utilizing cutesy chapter headings.
13She has used the same framing device as in Julius Caesar: a prison in which women are putting on a Shakespeare production.
14Lastly, but quite importantly, the modern-day framing device -Tonto is relating these events from middle age -never fully earns its keep.
15I understand that Alexandra's part is a late addition to the script as she'll feature in a framing device that bookends the film.
16I could, frankly, have even done without the framing device of Gill and her family and spent another hundred pages in Rosamond's company.
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