Sentence examples for set towers from inspiring English sources

I arrive at Opera North and walk into the studio, where Leslie Travers' brilliant set towers before me.

His initial proposal was to leave the interior of the museum almost completely empty and indulge his architectural and engineering fetishes by covering the outside of the museum with found and created sculpture — mostly antique light poles and Erector Set towers — to transform the building, which he dislikes, into a kind of Dada urban fantasia.

Elsewhere, a panoramic oil-on-Mylar work depicts Griffith's set towering over the still rural Hollywood Hills.

Below them, the counterpoint story of Ui's growing grocery protection racket staccatos along to an intermittent jazz accompaniment (Nikola Kodjabashia score) on Ti Green's brutally expressionist set (towering podiums, receding riveted steel walls; slabs of grey, splashes of red), with its documentary film backdrops.

With Paul Shaffer at piano, Letterman did his Top Ten, featuring songs for Newman's movies: only Shaffer could set "Towering Inferno" to the tune of West Side Story's "Maria,"or "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" to "Mack the Knife," but you get the picture.

To emphasize the mind-set, Towers called in some friends — Navy Seals just back from Afghanistan — for a clubhouse speech before a recent practice.

Setting Tower Hamlets, a socioeconomically deprived London borough, United Kingdom.

Re "Trade Center Plans Are Speeded Up After Criticism" (news article, April 24): As a former New Yorker, I favor a new set of towers identical in look to the destroyed ones, with one exception.

Buoux is a small hamlet set amid towering pine-crested cliffs.

Terry Winters's wonderful set, a tower of golden disks, recalls cymbals or records.

Completing the illusion are a stone fireplace and some outlandish but likable furniture, including lushly pillowed banquettes and a set of towering Siamese throne chairs.