Sentence examples for setting roughly from inspiring English sources

And perhaps there is another, more universal aspect to this nostalgia for both Crimea and Abkhazia, something intimate and vulnerable behind Mr Putin's bellicose rhetoric and the menacing men in balaclavas: a longing for lost childhood, and a desire to salvage lost people and times even by wrenching their setting roughly into the Russian present.

In the Taabo HDSS setting, roughly about every twentieth death falls into this category.

"The Magdalene Sisters," which tells the semifictionalized stories of four young women in one convent, is set roughly from 1964 to 1969.

Set roughly a hundred and twenty-five years in the future, "Avatar" is, like most speculative science fiction, a cautionary tale.

Huh? Assuming the film is set roughly in the present day, and Sophie is 20, then their love was in the era of Westland and privatising British Gas.

This series is followed by the well known The Mortal Instruments which is set roughly 100 years ahead, but it too is an awesome series.

This trend was at its birth when the show was set, roughly coinciding with Pope Innocent VIII's Summis desiderantes affectibus, a letter that recognised the existence of witches and gave inquisitors express approval to hunt them.

Set roughly midway between Rhodes and Kos, the arid mountains give it an unpromising look as you approach by ferry, but they hide a beautiful island with a few surprises.

Hannah's book will not feature Poirot's best friend Arthur Hastings and will be set roughly between The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) and Peril at End House (1932).

"Swingtown" is not as wryly tender as the sitcom "The Wonder Years," set roughly during the same period, but it's also not as bleak a look back as Ang Lee's movie about suburban angst in the '70s, "The Ice Storm".

This knockabout French cartoon for kids is set roughly a million years ago and revolves around a species of proto-homonids – basically our ape ancestors – learning to walk upright, use tools and make fart jokes to survive, but viewers with a strong interest in paleozoology are advised to stay well clear.