Sentence examples for establish from the outset from inspiring English sources

Fox was in pole position to take the show at that point (although negotiations had not always been smooth), but there was one thing the network was quick to establish from the outset: Cheryl would not appear.

The chats between Peter and Jerry in The Zoo Story establish from the outset the battles of language and unreliable biography, in an atmosphere of withheld menace, that would drive the writer's major later plays: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance and The Goat.

Presumably to establish from the outset that this film isn't just recycling the midlife nerdery of The 40 Year Old Virgin (another comedy with US Office connections, via its star Steve Carrell), Lippe is given some early sex scenes with his former schoolteacher (Sigourney Weaver) – though she swiftly retreats to a maternal presence on the other end of a phone.

Our sense of Leila as vulnerable is skilfully established from the outset; we meet her shortly after the death of her mother from multiple sclerosis, when she has been left with virtually nothing in the world.

Screenwriter Andrew Davies, director Tom Harper and the entire cast can hold their heads high as the final, almost-feature-length episode upheld the standards they have established from the outset: classy, sensitive, lavish, memorable.

Haneke elects to show us her corpse in the very first scene, as though establishing from the outset that this is where she (and by implication the rest of us) are headed.

The person at its centre is Adi, an opthalmologist in his early 40s who travels around making housecalls, fitting people for spectacles — and so the imagery of seeing and willed myopia is established from the outset.

In other words, Aimee Bender establishes from the outset a tone of casual, offhand intimacy, but the fairy tale-like parable, whose themes are mortality, self-sacrifice and dismemberment, is not so simple.

The LHC's host lab, CERN, was established from the outset as an international organisation with governance mechanisms that have stood the test of time and have allowed countries that are not CERN members to invest with confidence.

"And I was very open with journalists, so they didn't try to fill in gaps in the story, which meant a platform of mutual respect was established from the outset," Batty will say.

An anxious, world-weary tone is established from the outset in a voice-over just before Jack settles in alone at the cabin for rest, but he is soon so bored he flees.