Sentence examples for set scenes from inspiring English sources

You don't have time in this very short form to set scenes and build character.

Marcel Pagnol, the chronicler of life in Marseilles and its surroundings, set scenes from Marius around an idealised Vieux-Port.

The 17th century ushered in the classical, or ideal, landscape, which set scenes in the mythic and idyllic Arcadia of ancient Greece.

The film blends set scenes and documentary-style footage of real people playing themselves, blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction.

Maybe the next generation of New Yorkers will wonder why their parents felt so sentimental about those limestone monoliths and why novelists set scenes in them.

Ernest Hemingway was a regular from 1949 onwards and he set scenes in the bar in his novel Across the River and into the Trees.

Critics reported that the stars and stripes is nonetheless visible in the moon-set scenes.

The San Francisco-set scenes, with the Golden Gate Bridge and the steep, dizzying streets to the fore, can't help but rekindle memories of Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo.

The first of Wake in Fright's pub-set scenes occurs six minutes in and there's plenty more beer where that came from.

Skyfall's Shanghai and Macau-set scenes were partly censored, but the Bond franchise still more than doubled its take there (Skyfall: $59.2m; Quantum of Solace: $21m).

The latter's Shanghai and Macau-set scenes, presumably a sop to local audiences, backfired when they were censored by the government.