Because of the inversion of order created by a devious or witty slave, this stock character was perfect for achieving a humorous response and the traits of the character worked well for driving the plot forward.

Because of its structural potential for rhetorical effects, the elegiac couplet was also used by both Greek and Roman poets for witty, humorous, and satiric subject matter.

Because of their mixed tone and trouble keeping a position, they may not be able to hold onto objects, especially small ones requiring fine motor control ( such as a toothbrush or pencil ).

Because of the smaller bars, harder vibraphone mallets are necessary to get more sound and tone from the instrument.

Because of tone quality issues, some C ( concert pitch ) instruments — the C melody saxophone, C soprano saxophone, and C soprano clarinet, for example — have declined in popularity in favor of the standard versions ( B soprano and tenor saxophone ; B and A clarinets ).

Because of the Articles ' harsh tone, however, they have generally not been held in high regard by most Anglo-Catholics.

In the scene in question, Cary Grant's character is wearing a woman's marabou-trimmed négligée, and when asked why replies, in an exasperated tone, " Because I just went gay all of a sudden!

Because of the " dogmatic " tone of Oates ' material, reverse speech has been compared to " fringe literature.

Because of the very different circumstances from which they came, and in which they played, the rhythm and blues these bands produced was very different in tone from that of African American artists, often with more emphasis on guitars and sometimes with greater energy.

Because the pits in the plate are not deep, only a small number of top-quality impressions ( copies ) can be printed before the quality of the tone starts to degrade as the pressure of the press begins to smooth them out.

Because of the series ' popularity, various developers have created spiritual successor games similar in theme and tone of the X-COM games ( sometimes called " X-COM clones "; Gollop also himself called turn-based tactical game genre in general as " sons of Rebelstar " in a reference to one of his earlier games ).

Because of this hypercorrection, words such as 愛 (, meaning " love "), which has a dark tone, are pronounced by speakers with an initial, " ngoi3.

Because the human ear is very sensitive to sudden changes, however, it is necessary for the success of the illusion that the amplitude of the tone in the region of the discontinuity not decrease or increase too abruptly.

Because of such demands and the inflammatory tone of its current leadership, it was sometimes accused of being anti-religious or hating the religious, and so some, including many secular people who would otherwise agree with its platform, would not vote for it.

Because of the short " voice " of the pan, needle / LED display type tuners cannot track the signal to identify a tone.

Because of Ivory's volume and vibration it is normally used by a teacher or " Tate-jamisen "; lead shamisen, so that the other players can follow their tone and signals.

Because period is the inverse of frequency, lower tone frequencies take longer to decode.

Because the chips have no cash value, usually chips are designed with a single color ( usually differing in shade or tone from the version on the casino floor ), a smaller breadth, and a basic mark on the interior to distinguish denominations ; however, at certain events ( such as the World Series of Poker or other televised poker ), chips approach quality levels of chips on the floor.

Because Vysotsky tuned down a tone and a half, his strings had less tension, which also colored the sound.

Because there were more characters of the " level tone " ( 平聲 píngshēng ), they occupied two juan ( 卷 " fascicle ", " scroll " or " volume "), while the other three tones filled one volume each.

Because of its deep tone, it penetrates through the ensemble and can be heard for miles.

Because of it the guitar had only 3 knobs, 2 volume knobs and a master tone knob.

Because of the backlash, Catts was forced to tone down his rhetoric when in the area.

Because the spires are made from Sydney sandstone and are 30 years newer, they are of a darker tone than the older parts of the building.

Because of their range and purity of tone, bayans are often the instrument of choice for accordion virtuosi who perform classical and contemporary classical music.

Because the actual tone of a vibrating piano string is not just one pitch, but a complex of tones arranged in a harmonic series, two strings which are close to a simple harmonic ratio such as a perfect fifth will beat at higher pitches ( at their coincident harmonics ), because of the difference in pitch between their coincident harmonics.

Because there are 12 ( or 16 ) tone pairs, and typically four tones were sent in rapid succession ( less than one second ), more events could be triggered than by sub-audible tones ( usually 25 Hz and 35 Hz ).

Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions.

Because of its bright green color when polished, amazonite is sometimes cut and used as a gemstone, although it is easily fractured.

Because of this, each of the infinitely many antiderivatives of a given function f is sometimes called the " general integral " or " indefinite integral " of f and is written using the integral symbol with no bounds:

Because of its relatively small size for a capital city, Bonn was sometimes referred to, jokingly, as the Bundeshauptstadt ohne nennenswertes Nachtleben ( Federal capital without noteworthy night-life ) or the Bundesdorf ( Federal Village ).

Because the result of performing the operation on a pair of elements of S is again an element of S, the operation is called a closed binary operation on S ( or sometimes expressed as having the property of closure ).

Because the size of the dispersed phase may be difficult to measure, and because colloids have the appearance of solutions, colloids are sometimes identified and characterized by their physico-chemical and transport properties.

Because Ω depends on the program encoding used, it is sometimes called Chaitin's construction instead of Chaitin's constant when not referring to any specific encoding.

Because of all these, the mere classification of Sireniki Eskimo language is not settled yet: Sireniki language is sometimes regarded as a third branch of Eskimo ( at least, its possibility is mentioned ), but sometimes it is regarded rather as a group belonging to the Yupik branch.

Because of his close relationship with his schoolmaster, Eusebius was sometimes called Eusebius Pamphili: " Eusebius, son of Pamphilus ".

Because a person's DNA contains information that has been passed down relatively unchanged from early ancestors, analysis of DNA is sometimes used for genealogical research.

Because most of these games feature the name of the designer prominently on the box, they are sometimes known as designer games.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

Because the final chapter of his book is a song, it is sometimes assumed that he was a member of the tribe of Levi, which served as musicians in Solomon's Temple.

Because Japanese does not normally distinguish singular and plural in nouns, it is sometimes unclear whether kami refers to a single or multiple entities.

Because steam locomotives included one or more steam engines, they are sometimes referred to as " steam engines ".

Because there are about twelve lunations ( synodic months ) in a solar year, this period ( 354. 37 days ) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year.

Because linear algebra is such a well-developed theory, nonlinear mathematical models are sometimes approximated by linear ones.

Because of its Scottish theme, the play is sometimes said to have been written for, and perhaps debuted for, King James ; however, no external evidence supports this hypothesis.

Because mu-metal saturates at such low fields, sometimes the outer layer in such multilayer shields is made of ordinary steel.

Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, apoatropine, hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism.

Because of the solid form of the tiles, mahjong is sometimes classified as a domino game but plays similar to card games such as rummy.

Because of their position between the two main systems of law, these types of legal systems are sometimes referred to as " mixed " systems of law.

Because most of his literary work was written while he frequented various Viennese bars and coffeehouses, Altenberg is sometimes referred to as a cabaret or coffee house poet.

Because of its position in the periodic table, polonium is sometimes referred to as a metalloid, however others note that on the basis of its properties and behavior it is " unambiguously a metal ".