The phrase "a kind of setting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particular type or category of environment or context in which something occurs.
Example: "The novel takes place in a kind of setting that blends both urban and rural elements, creating a unique atmosphere."
Alternatives: "a type of environment" or "a sort of backdrop".
The plot is not quite Medea, but this memoir is a kind of setting ablaze of a life's work that for Gordon is now inextricable from heartbreak.
That song is very funny because I wrote it in Columbus, Ohio, after a gig in a hotel in a kind of setting that the person of the song is in.
So to actually work in a kind of setting where everybody presented with a very complex pain history… [when] you have that much pain… you become a different person, of course it shapes you.
But at times he lowers into a kind of set-faced gloom at the things the world is willing to watch and praise.
We're so far into a bizarre, constructed realm that, when the camera pulls back and we see everything as a kind of set, as a TV show which is being filmed, it has a destabilizing effect.
All of this marks an uncomfortable reversal for Spielberg, who has spent more than a decade as one of the Jewish world's most admired figures: his 1993 film Schindler's List has become a kind of set text of the Holocaust, seen by more people than will ever read Primo Levi or watch Claude Lanzmann's nine-and-a-half hour masterpiece, Shoah.
Lorenzano (2013) provides a more complex taxonomy of the intellectual landscape of the Semantic View, including a discussion of Structuralism, a kind of set-/model-theoretic perspective.
At the Consumer Electronics Show last January, Cisco demoed what you'd call consumer telepresence, a kind of set-top box that you put on your television that allows it to be used for high-quality videoconferencing.
I noticed oddities, a kind of set of shimmering ephemera which suggest that there was something the author was holding just out of view of the reader.
In studies including patients with known diabetes [ 16, 19, 23], the measured risk factor levels are supposedly closer to an average steady state level, a kind of set point which is typical for the patient in question.
Try working with a partner who can quiz you using the deck as a kind of set of flash cards.
