Sentence examples for set on the cusp from inspiring English sources
Educating Rita Set on the cusp of the 1980s, Educating Rita was renowned for its spirited take on institution, class and pretence.
Sam Neill, who plays General MacArthur, a retired First World War hero guilty of sending his late wife's lover to his certain death, agrees: "This book is set on the cusp of the Second World War, and that must have been very much on Agatha Christie's mind," he says.
The varied stories in "Black Swan Green" are set a month apart, and the bookends match: the first chapter, which takes place just before Jason's thirteenth birthday, is titled "January Man"; the last, set on the cusp of fourteen, bears the same title.
Other notable novels include River of Smoke, by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray), the second in his opium wars seafaring trilogy; Pure, by Andrew Miller (Sceptre), set on the cusp of the French revolution; and Wish You Were Here, by Graham Swift (Picador), about a brother killed in Iraq.
That was "The Violet Hour," which had already been chosen as the inaugural show for the fancy new digs of the Manhattan Theater Club, the beautifully restored Biltmore Theater, built in 1925 and highly appropriate for a play set on the cusp of the jazz age.
Reviewers who complained of the presence of fridges, sunglasses and high heels in Luc Bondy's stunning production for the Vienna Burgtheater seemed blind to the beauty of what the director was doing: nudging a play that is set on the cusp of change into a visual language that made it more immediate.
In addition, a long movable spine projected backward from the back of the head, the teeth had two divergent prongs and a central cusp set on a buttonlike base, the anal fin was two-lobed, and the males had claspers.
Set in Japan on the cusp of the 2020 Olympics, the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex alum weaves together two stories.
Hot Little Hands (Penguin) is a collection of nine stories set in adolescence or on the cusp of adulthood.
Published in 1873, Anna Karenina is the tale of a disgraced, adulterous married woman, set in a nation on the cusp of great change.
At Sheffield Crucible, Dawn Walton of Eclipse directs a major revival of Lorraine Hansbury's great play A Raisin in the Sun, a family drama set in the US on the cusp of the civil-rights era.
