The phrase "arrangement of things" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the organization or positioning of various items or elements in a particular order or structure.
Example: "The artist's studio was filled with an intricate arrangement of things, each carefully placed to inspire creativity."
Alternatives: "organization of items" or "configuration of objects".
It was an arrangement of things to look at.
And the Ottoman Empire is far from the worst arrangement of things that can be imagined in that part of the world.
And we learned that power is not, itself, rotten, and that the overall arrangement of things in America is no worse than elsewhere, and generally a great deal better.
The "ACTUAL BONNIE & CLYDE DEATH CAR — WILL PAY $10,000 IF YOU PROVE IT'S NOT," an attraction that the young Dell sees with his father, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and contemplates again at the novel's end, may be as eloquent as Ruskin or chess in its bleakly sly statement about the arrangement of things.
The "ACTUAL BONNIE & CLYDE DEATH CAR WILL PAY $10,000 IF YOU PROVE IT'S NOT," an attraction that the young Dell sees with his father, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and contemplates again at the novel's end, may be as eloquent as Ruskin or chess in its bleakly sly statement about the arrangement of things.
The complexe significabile, once thought to be Gregory's invention, is neither the proposition itself (although it determines the truth or falsity of the proposition) nor individual things in the world, but rather the arrangement of things in the world.
Through layered arrangements of things.
The historical present is the time of actions, the time of the inaugurations of new sequences and arrangements of things.
That moment of revelation lifts the spirits as we take pleasure from the arrangement of ordinary things.
The beauty of these sentences may have to do precisely with Dell's referencing of Ruskin: "Composition is the arrangement of unequal things".
Looking back, Dell references Ruskin — "Composition is the arrangement of unequal things" — and the idea is given large significance at the novel's beginning and at its end.
