Sentence examples for setting a scene from inspiring English sources

Imagine two ways of setting a scene.

In Wonderland, Winterbottom sullied this same hotel by setting a scene in an upstairs room.

For a novelist, setting a scene in Canterbury cathedral is nothing.

The book doesn't begin in the same place, though; Ms. Clark is one of those authors who love setting a scene in the present, then looping back again and again, Tarantino-style, to fill in the background.

State Parks Police Officer Chad Walder's manslaughter trial finally began in June, 2009, and although Dennison was not called as a witness, his name and his gun were invoked frequently by the defense in setting a scene of frightening lawlessness on Stag Hill.

In setting a scene in a bathhouse in 1975 (the year "The Ritz" opened), Mr. McNally clearly means to signal the differences not only between then and now but also between the perspectives of the young farceur he was and the mature, probing playwright he has become.

She sets a scene or establishes a personality with great economy and intensity.

From his earliest days, Bergman learned to set a scene with the minimum amount of dialogue.

I once needed to set a scene on the muddy bit at the side of the Thames.

4.07am: Swimming: Hazel Irvine knows how to set a scene: "It's time for history to be made".

Mist-shrouded sea and landscapes in dour grays and greens set a scene that lies light-years away from the chipper, Day-Glo shallows of, say, "Pinkalicious".