Sentence examples for setting up the situation from inspiring English sources

Ms. Gilbert begins by setting up the situation, explaining how "in the space of only a few hours, my life with Felipe had been neatly flipped upside down, as though by some great cosmic spatula".

In the "financier" script for Ida, the film opened with a scene of three nuns making a scarecrow in a field and a series of generic dialogue scenes, setting up the situation and the characters.

The first scene sets up the situation.

Owen sets up the situation beautifully.

The pilot sets up the situation with record speed.

There was no one to set up the situation beforehand nor to break down the play after it occurred.

Some years before, I had set up the situation of the story, only to stall after a handful of pages.

Any budding dramatist could learn a vast amount from the economy and skill with which Ayckbourn sets up the situation.

But it takes a long first act to set up the situation and one is astonished at the ease with which Mary is believed.

Draws between Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1-1) and Luxembourg and Belarus (0-0) yesetrday set up the situation that allowed France to move from fourth to top spot in the group.

In the questions it raises about women and reproduction and success, this episode also sets up the situation, explored with agonising realism in later sections, whereby we learn that Marlene's progress has been bought at the expense of her illegitimate daughter (an emotionally famished Olivia Poulet) who has been brought up as the child of her resentful proletarian sister (excellent Stella Gonet).