Santana simulated three innings as Dan Warthen, the pitching coach, stood inside the batter's box and invented situations using the names of National League hitters.
Since they are both jobless and stuck at home, she found herself obsessively inventing situations so she could be alone, she said.
Mr. Mahfouz didn't have to invent situations or characters; it was sufficient for him to observe the people around him.
Everything that counts is under the surface, in the tortured, painfully refined minds of his characters, and James wasn't, for all his gifts, very good at inventing situations that could show an audience, rather than tell it, what lay beneath his people's apparently banal words and gestures.
"Steve Jobs" unfolds backstage at three different product launches, inventing situations and dialogue out of whole cloth and highlighting Jobs' reputation as a demanding bully and his emotionally fraught relationship with his eldest daughter, Lisa.
While she invents situations and characters in her works, they are built on a foundation of realistic situations and believable details that lend them a high level of plausibility.
Creative writing forces your brain to work on inventing situations and dialogue, characters and environments.
Now, they have invented this situation with sexual minorities".
Berg's name rarely gets mentioned as a pioneer, yet as Kempner's film shows, she can lay claim to having invented the situation-comedy with her popular show, The Goldbergs.
I feel a bit sad for my new friend, and invent a situation in my head where he was bullied at uni by the posh dicks from The Social Network.
Cynics have suggested Red Bull - whose boss Dietrich Mateschitz is a close ally of Ecclestone - might have invented the whole situation as a way to leverage the political situation in which F1 now finds itself.
