Sentence examples for familiar setup from inspiring English sources

Also getting good mileage out of a familiar setup is "Replicas," by Jeremy Power Regimbal.

Those events constitute an old-fashioned tale with a familiar setup.

This familiar setup starts a by-the-books story devoid of interesting characters or any real surprises.

It's a familiar setup, but one that also sounds like something only Kings of Leon can do.

This gleefully familiar setup is given an effective, almost theatrical presentation by the director Nimród Antal (his previous film was the excellent Hungarian thriller "Kontroll"), who is an expert at slowly structuring the gathering dread.

Visitors to Leon County Jail sit in a row of chairs before a reinforced-glass partition, facing the inmates on the other side — like the familiar setup seen in movies.

Most New Yorker cartoons involve familiar setups, stock characters, and a single caption.

And it was instructive to see the media so disoriented upon being deprived of the familiar setups, set-pieces and bubble-like environments of a modern presidential campaign.

The movie, however, never strains for hipness, and Mr. Ruspoli displays an aptitude for the play of light and shade that transforms familiar setups into something fresh.

But in the most recent seasons of "UnREAL" and "Jessica Jones," the former of which wrapped up on Monday night, these familiar setups didn't amount to familiar conclusions.

The movie's awkward mix of familiar setups finds a teenage orphan from China on the sorta-mean streets of Sydney, Australia, inspiring hope in a criminal who has long since repented for his sins.