"It sets the idea that this stuff is important in life.
Then you have Paul Verhoeven off camera, reading the police detectives lines, and that idea of having the policeman removed from the scene, diminished – that set up the idea that developed in Her Story where the detective is completely removed from the experience".
To them, such research is insulting because it sets up the idea that women are actually different and perhaps require different treatment.
I think that early on, I was wowed by talent, and I was willing to set aside the idea that this person might not be a team player.
Of all the terrifying precedents being set this year, the idea that objective truth can be reinvented at will is perhaps the most damaging.
As always, before beginning a book she immersed herself in research, starting with St. Augustine: "Many of our ways of thinking about memory had their origins in the 'Confessions.' St. Augustine was the one who set up the idea that memory was this great storehouse, and that nothing was ever lost.
The danger is that Edgar's statement sets up the idea that different kinds of theatre are in opposition to each other, and that the individual playwright must be at odds and in competition with those making work collectively or collaboratively or using other kinds of theatrical languages.
Deep down, however, Sollers is eighty per cent in agreement with the Central American's appraisal, so once he has set aside the idea that the visitor might be mocking them the conversation proceeds in an amicable fashion, at least for a while.
At that time I had pretty much abandoned the whole writer dream, and I was set in the idea that I'd be an operations officer for life.
It clearly sets up the idea that people can and should be expected to come to terms with certain kinds of trauma but not others.
