Sentence examples for it's a setup from inspiring English sources

But it's a setup waiting for pathos, and when Howie's coke-addicted high-school girlfriend saddles him with her nine-year-old son the plot moves predictably (damaged vet cheering at school pageant; vet buying catcher's mitt) toward movie-ready redemption.

For Tashlin and Mr. Lewis, it's a setup that plays into the defining ambiguity of Mr. Lewis's comic persona: his dual nature as a needy, vulnerable infant and a sexually aggressive adult.

It's a setup with a two-sided mirror built into it: the alien's perspective on the world of humans is also a view into the alien's own world, because the strangeness of mankind would appear to "her" only in terms of her own alien experiences, her own alien assumptions.

It's a setup line.

But it's a setup.

It's a setup, a ruse.

But it was a setup.

Mazaheri said through a translator, "It was a setup".

In other words, it was a setup for failure.

"It was a setup," he said of the arrests and fatal shooting.

I think it was a setup to get black folks out of New Orleans forever.