Sentence examples for encounters set from inspiring English sources

"Brief Encounters" (set to Debussy's "Children's Corner") teeters on the brink between naïveté and sensual experience.

The two duets on view were romantic encounters, set to Debussy's music, for two separate couples in Judanna Lynn's tasteful period costumes.

She keeps a journal, and the entries, as well as chance encounters, set off memories in the movie of her extraordinary mother (Laura Dern), her husband, and various other men.

The story will be told in a series of dramatized encounters set in the village at the turn of the 20th century and will be performed at the new Ward Melville Heritage Organization Educational and Cultural Center in Stony Brook.

An excerpt from "Divining" (Ms. Jamison created the dance in 1984, her first for the company) feels similarly boilerplate in its sensually lush depiction of ritualized encounters, set to Kimati Dinizulu and Monti Ellison's rhythmic, mysterious music and unfolding within a mesh of light projections evoking thick vegetation.

But these encounters set other things in motion.

Writing about the weird, ridiculous encounters, setting myself little quizzes and challenges and creating characters and back-stories for the patients around me became my way of stopping the zombification process.

This encounter set in motion a saga that has taken almost 20 years to unfold.

In one case, a rape victim the authors call Faye Treatser identified her assailant, Walter Tyrone Snyder, during a casual encounter set up by detectives in a police station in Alexandria, Va.

This first, seemingly ordinary encounter set the stage for far greater observations on the differences between Jews and everyone else.

After suffering a personal tragedy, Trond retreats from the world, until a chance encounter sets him off into memory.