1.   And true life, no matter how fascinating, is pretty boring on playback unless enhanced with the narrative devices of fiction.

2.   And the narrative device is a far more dangerous game than baseball.

3.   If that narrative device seems purely mechanical, the performances are still a cut above the plotting.

4.   In fact, before many pages have passed, the narrative device that frames her becomes invisible.

5.   Muniz says this with such down-to-earth believability that he seems to be talking to us rather than using an annoying narrative device.

6.   One narrative device that Frump employs throughout adds greatly to the importance of this book.

7.   Richter immediately sensed the potential that his sort of narrative device would have.

8.   The cynical me-firstism of the Lichts, however, is not merely a narrative device.

9.   There is lore about his groundbreaking use of music as a narrative device.