Sentence examples for he literally set from inspiring English sources

He literally set up the shot and said this is the scene and said action, just go for it.

When she realized that her undemocratic terms were not going to go down, she literally set out to make the party radioactive.

Armed with a vivid vision, they literally set the standard for a great customer experience.

People ask what kind of film-maker Sam Peckinpah might have been had he not faced (and provoked) such ire from his studio backers (one of whom literally set out to destroy his Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, and got it done), and if he'd been given the full expressive freedom he seemed to crave and never get.

When Obama took office, and throughout the spring, he got so many things done (and proposed so many others) that it literally set the Republicans back on their heels.

For whatever reasons, those plans fell through and the rot, quite literally, set in.

The performance of Beethoven's "Egmont" Overture conducted by Zubin Mehta quite literally set the tone: dark, brooding and inexorably imposing.

After all, Ms. Johnston believes that the truth quite literally set her free — specifically, on the day she decided to write "Guts".

These migrants have contributed to the growth of shantytowns called gecekondu (literally "set down by night") that have no sanitation facilities and limited access to power and water.

In 17th-century France, the military band of Louis XIV played marches, and France literally set the pace for march music all over Europe well into the 19th century.

One can literally set down one's laptop on the desk, hit the keyboard, shake the mouse, and everything is connected.