Devices
Devices noun - An inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'.
Both words in one sentence
- To explain why these things happen week after week a storytelling device will be created, often multiple devices, with the sole purpose of polarizing the weirdness in the direction of the heroes.
Source: Magnetic Plot Device - Most have a fairly easily discernible purpose, though - for example devices for producing cigarette ash and footprints for analysis.
Source: Cow Tools -
An interesting subversion in ReBoot occurs where Enzo has himself tied up and put on one of these devices on purpose.
Source: Conveyor Belt-O-Doom
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