Such simple narrative techniques serve far more effectively to compress the passage of time than do any of the novel's more elaborate strategies.

He says that fancy literary retreats are little more than an elaborate (and expensive) strategy for avoiding what he calls "page fright."

No time for more elaborate strategy than that.

Vrenn certainly understood; it was not an elaborate strategy, even for the frontier squadrons.

From the start, it had been an elaborate strategy to make certain that Witwer would fail to arrest him.

Others suggest it is all part of a more elaborate and methodical political strategy designed to keep his name on the list of possible Republican vice presidential candidates.

To take advantage of yesterday's discounts, shoppers hatched elaborate strategies, drawn up on maps and in spiral-bound notebooks.

One thing I've definitely changed about: I don't feel like creating an elaborate strategy.

There was no time to plan elaborate strategies.

So Operation Migration, a Canadian group, devised an elaborate strategy to help them.