Sentence examples for actually set in the from inspiring English sources

Television bosses aren't willing to risk ratings by commissioning edgier material, scripts that are actually set in the contemporary world.

It was only later that someone pointed out to Carreras that the story is actually set in the late 19th century".

That sense of throwback was handily matched by the best picture hopefuls, only one of which ("The Descendants") is actually set in the present day.

Winger agrees that Berlin holds a particular fascination for foreign viewers, even if he's unsure whether Deutschland 83 fans noticed the show wasn't actually set in the city.

Finally, I'm going to go out on a huge geographic limb and say that John Harvey's Nottingham-based Resnick series has always struck me as more LA noir than many books actually set in the city.

This was his patch: he knew it intimately – one of his London comedies, Epicoene (1609), was actually set in the Strand – and it may be that the tavern, under a previous name, was one of his haunts.

Mr. Ishiguro was so struck by Norwich and its surrounding county that he used it as inspiration for his 2005 novel "Never Let Me Go" (though the book was actually set in East Sussex, the 2010 movie adaptation was largely filmed in Norfolk County, home to Norwich).

Only two of Fellini's films are actually set in Rimini, the early I Vitelloni and his most popular work, Amarcord ("I remember").

The inability to deliberate rationally on the torture issue was but the tragic denouement of an organizational process that was actually set in motion in the early 1990's, largely to serve the convenience of a very small number of individuals.

It is actually set in Edinburgh, though much of the film was shot in Glasgow.

(And, yes, the action is actually set in a couple of public bathrooms; that's not just a mean trick).