That's the story's basic setup.
Using this basic setup, the game presents you with an ever-evolving variety of puzzles.
The basic setup of "No Impact Man" is, by this point, familiar.
The basic setup of Bentham's panopticon is this: there is a central tower surrounded by cells.
For the curious thing about the movie was that everybody could grasp the basic setup instantly.
But here the basic setup is "The Beverly Hillbillies" without Jed.
The basic setup for "Man" is an archetype used in everything from television variety shows to soapy romance movies.
Their basic setup, in which the companies issuing securities were the ones who paid to have them rated, was flawed.
In "Simone," the premise is thin to begin with, and Niccol repeats his basic setup over and over.
"Harvey's Dream," like much of King's work, resembles a riddle, or a joke: the basic setup is familiar, but the punch line is a surprise.
The basic setup is that they are a hermaphrodite subspecies of humans who function as neuters (or "latents") for three-fourths of each month.
