Sentence examples for obvious setup from inspiring English sources

It was an obvious setup for a standard McCain joke, and he seemed positively embarrassed by it.

It's hard to tell whether these lines work because they're funny or just because they deviate from the show's obvious setup.

About the only criticism of "Un Lun Dun" I can offer is that I wish its ending were as daring and heretical as the rest of the novel, instead of an obvious setup for a sequel.

And since clicking any photo on a Pinterest board takes you to the Web site from which it came, a Pinterest board is a screamingly obvious setup for an online catalog.

It's a dangerously obvious setup, but the first act works because none of the characters fulfill their stereotypes, and the performances are largely deft and largely restrained, particularly that of Mr. Henry, who beautifully colors his good-ol'-boy turn with the heart of a good man.

That seems like an obvious setup to ask: If leaving leaving Tinder alone was key to its early success, why is Rad being demoted?

The punchline to the show's last joke (about Chinese people all looking the same) is so obvious, the setup should come with spoiler alerts.

The first episode of season three was excessively predictable, more so than the previous seasons, with obvious plot setups left and right.

(That's the way it worked: an inexperienced young agent often re-stated what he thought was obvious about the setup, repeated the known details again and again, as if to assure himself that everything was positioned correctly, that what had been imagined in the Chicago office — using maps and line drawings — properly matched the Kansas reality).

It is obvious that the first setup corresponds to a kind of worst case concerning parameter estimation, whereas the second setup represents a kind of best case scenario.

Five of the guests have no clue about why they are there, though the setup is obvious before the sixth appears.