Sentence examples for set in a framing from inspiring English sources

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Following the convention established by Boccaccio's Decamerone (1353), the Straparola tales are set in a framing narrative, a 13-day party at the palace of the Bishop of Lodi on the island of Murano during carnevale; the narrators are 13 ladies.

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The mirror was two-sided, set in a plastic frame measuring 3×4.75 inches, hung outside the cage, and could be swiveled.

Nineteenth-century explorers marveled at it, one calling it "a blue emerald set in a frame of silvery mountains".

Ms. Holt describes herself as a "single mum," and her collection includes a picture of her daughter, Justine, now a 22-year-old nurse who lives in Tampa, set in a frame wreathed with tiny turquoise stones.

There are two presents in gift bags stuffed with too much tissue: a compact that's easier to open than mom's current model and one of those photo collages you order online, set in a frame.

In centre-right and centre-left variants, these policy fixes are set in a frame of managing internal competition: the centre-right backs jobs and schooling as a basis for more equal competition; the centre-left favours an overlapping package of schooling plus minimum wages and some redistribution through family credits and such like to compensate for disadavantage.

The voices sound like voices, and the instruments more or less sound like instruments, set in a frame of noise that refers only to itself and unfolds in irregular rhythms that almost, but not quite, get the upper hand over the steady time holding the music together.

Also the stuff of many legends, the painting, set in a frame of gold and precious stones, is believed to have been brought to the island by some of its first settlers around 1502.

Smith said that in 1823 while praying one night for forgiveness from his sins, he was visited by an angel named Moroni, who revealed the location of a buried book made of golden plates, as well as other artifacts, including a breastplate and a set of interpreters composed of two seer stones set in a frame, which had been hidden in a hill in Manchester near his home.

There are five windows on the south side of the nave; the one to the west of the porch is set in a pointed frame, and the others are in square frames.

Now those duets have been set in a musical "frame" that unites them.

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