Sentence examples for wrote setting from inspiring English sources

It's going to be a fascinating afternoon (he wrote, setting himself up for a fall).

7.59pm: Perhaps it's time to start having a close look at the 3,000-word 3,000-wordhat John Bercow wrote setting out his plans for "the Speakership in the 21st century".

It's also itself another palimpsest: the scherzo, as David Oshows-Smish shows, is not only an expanded version of a song that Mahler wrote setting a text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn about St Anthony's unfortunately pointless sermonising to the sinful fishes, it's also, in Mahler's own description, a tragic vision of a dance watched by an observer who can't be part of the revels.

Half-built, it carried the image of a carcass in the desert: "The sand-covered site was showing only skeletal girders and joists under red cranes…" he wrote, setting the scene for a novel that explored city-wide anxieties about Islamic fundamentalism and rogue hedge funds.

In one kitchen he wrote, "Set foot on the island and you will die".

Lee Lewis, the director, he wrote, "sets a cracking pace, and her cast doesn't miss a beat".

"Either way, everything will be fine," she writes, setting up the last of this book's virtually nonstop zingers.

"Cadets were marching for themselves, narcissistically transfixed," Manegold writes, setting the stage for the painful struggles looming ahead.

The novel contains two or three thrillingly written set pieces, and this is one of them.

Tressell relished writing set pieces sometimes of farce, sometimes of great eloquence.

The result is a tight, smartly written set loaded with sharp lines and delivered with conviction.