Sentence examples for a setup and a from inspiring English sources

Those are delightful, but they serve a setup and a punch line outside the meaning of the film.

It's only adequate, hardly a patch on Payne's earlier portraits of his fellow-Nebraskans, because, here, it's merely a setup and a pretext for a comedic drama that wrenches Paul out of the practicalities of his place and into the realm of fantasy in what is the movie's raison d'être.

Each round consists of a setup and a transmission phase.

We use the design concept of virtual-optics imaging systems to implement a setup and a corresponding filter to remove the distortion.

But people posting on microblogs on Sunday speculated that the arrest was a setup and an attempt to stifle online commentary.

Nuñez told me that the scandal was a setup, and Donziger has called the incident "a Chevron sting".

But the sale was a setup, and the buyer was actually an undercover agent for the Department of Homeland Security.

The series' creator, Deborah Joy Le Vine, who is also listed as the writer, has devised a setup and assembled a cast that often strain believability (five women who look like actresses all working in homicide in one station house).

"This is called a setup and it's a bullish indicator.

It's a visual way of doing a setup and then a punchline for a joke.

He bumps into a crooked cop who tosses him a gun as a setup, and is shot despite his pleas.