A date and various details — a violoncello, a maid, the anatomist's isolation from county society — established the setting as late-18th-century England.
My mother, without ever taking a writing class, had crafted an opening sentence that defined the main character, established the setting and dropped us into the action, complete with complication and tension.
From the thermodynamic point of view, the obtained exothermic and positive entropic values establish the set of favourable results for the thermodynamic of CN-POR/BBT CN-POR/BBTions.
As a further step in the investigation of this problem, in the present study, we used comparative transcriptomic analysis to establish the set of genes belonging to the RosR regulon.
So establish the setting first, make it clear why it's funny, throw in a surprise and get out.
Britannica Classics: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, part 1Editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman introducing dramatized scenes from Dickens's Great Expectations, establishing the setting, characters, shape, and themes of this classic novel.
There's a wealth of information in these simple sentences.The judicious use of two foreign words — "Ata" and "yuan" — quickly establishes the setting; we may not yet know where we are, but we know we're not "here".
Establishing the setting and characters at the beginning of a data story is important as well as highlighting how something has changed in the environment that introduces a new problem or opportunity (inciting incident).
While Jones took the plaudits for re-establishing the set-piece platform, Jenkins was far more influential around the field than of late before a productive outing ended with injury.
He begins his recording by establishing the setting.
