Sentence examples for set a boy from inspiring English sources

Orson Welles said film-making was the biggest electric train set a boy ever had.

And a film studio, as Orson Welles observed, was the biggest electric train set a boy could ever hope to play with.

Any active film studio, a mixture of the bracingly convincing and patently false, is itself a sort of theme park, and Nolan reminded me of Orson Welles's maxim that Hollywood filmmaking is "the biggest electric-train set a boy ever had".

That one avenger should kill so many people, themselves armed, in such a short space of time would, of course, have been impossible in the days of six-shooter pistols and awkwardly loaded rifles, but set a boy down in a school with a modern assault gun or two and it becomes much more possible, if a boy's thoughts of catharsis should run in that direction.

And for those who, every now and then, would still chase the big payceck, there's also an opportunity for such directors to work on studio projects, on which — as the auteurs of the classic studio era did — they sacrifice some control of the script and even of the process in order to play with what Orson Welles famously called "the biggest electric-train set a boy ever had".

In addition to the long jump record by Harris, Jamar Ervin of Camden, N.J., set a boys' meet record in the 55 at 6.38.

The girls team of Trenton Central swept three sprint relays and Toms River North's two-man pole-vault relay set a boys' meet record in the East Coast Relays at Morristown (N.J).

When he was growing up in Dublin the glimpse of a nipple would set a young boy's gonads going like the tumblers in a slot machine.

His older sister, Barbara Nieburg, recalled that their parents gave him a train set as a boy and that he watched endlessly as it went round and round.

But while he did not care if both were girls, his wife was set on a boy.

He's wiry and no doubt can chin himself on an index finger, but he has small features set in a boy's soft face.