How To Use Set piece In A Sentence
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There are great visual set pieces that play on your expectations and take you from observing a space to really being in it.
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The play contains a number of typical Stoppard set pieces.
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It is the wealth of these bog-standard set pieces that actually made me long to hate this book, but I can't.
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The theatrical element of the show though never let up with various song and dance set pieces featuring trapeze artists, skateboarders, a tap dancer in top hat and tails, and even a dancing bagpiper.
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The Broken Road includes a number of bravura set pieces.
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At others, his approach to the show is so much like a series of set pieces it seems as if he is limbering up for the opening ceremony of some big but cash-strapped sporting event.
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More often Arthur tells jokes - set pieces that, though funny, are either old hat or burdened with so much excogitated emphasis as to, rather than prance like Lippizaners, plod like Percherons.
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Every scene in a David Cronenberg film - particularly his set pieces - has a shape, and is meticulously based around a quite theatrical scenography.
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Both of tonight's episodes revolve around an inspired set piece.
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However, they contribute much to the power with which the big set pieces are delivered.
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There are some fairly creepy set pieces but nothing really stands out, the acting is average, the plot is hackneyed and derivative, the direction is average.
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The set pieces with full orchestral backing are sumptuous, rich collages of light and colour.
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The heart of the novel is a long, dazzling set piece that is simultaneously satiric and macabre.
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The resident Surrey-based jokers, who gave two sell out performances in Epsom in November and March, have been tickling fans with a melange of bawdy songs and set pieces since they began working together two and a half years ago.
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Mendes is not known for action set pieces, just like Forrester before him.
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Musical rhythm is based on the specific set pieces have been reflected in the beat.
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The story is a fairly set piece murder mystery, or murder thriller.
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Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal Alex Hutton, a scenic artist, works on a 'Godspell' set piece at the Production Resource Group facility in New Windsor, N.Y. As audiences will see, the final product includes an intricately molded frame of a ceiling that hovers over the stage, and a makeshift fly-rail system designed to make it appear that the theater has been shored up with rope.
Gearing Up for 'Godspell'
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They're nice set pieces, but it's easy to see why they were cut from the final print.
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In the first half the set piece - so recently unfashionable in certain rugby union circles - was the epicentre of the match.
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As befits a team built on stats, they play the percentages and score about half of their goals from set pieces.
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Yet Liverpool were too often bereft of ideas when it came to set pieces.
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He handles the big political set pieces superbly, but also offers many whimsical vignettes.
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What follows, for about 45 minutes, are bizarre little set pieces, punctuated by ample, generally clever patter.
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The second set piece is one of the best biographical sketches in a book that contains many.
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The result is a flawed but intriguing film that succeeds in holding your attention with a number of fine set pieces and some gleefully relaxed performances.
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The static set pieces would not be out of place in a picture gallery.
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With such a brilliant set piece, you can envisage where the comedy comes from, but as in the first play, any humour is interwoven with the power of real drama.
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This was a much tougher game than the score suggests, and it took a slick set piece to break the deadlock.
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As befits a team built on stats, they play the percentages and score about half of their goals from set pieces.
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In the opening set piece a husband and wife breakfast together, a setting so quotidian its very normality is suspicious.
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Measured, stately and engaging over the long haul, Equal Area Series is a perfect set piece for the museum.
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With a much bigger budget at his disposal, Rodriguez employs a starry cast and racks up the gun play with a series of action set pieces.
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His presence was also valuable in set pieces at both ends of the pitch.
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The highlights of the film are the set pieces showing civic unrest.
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The house was white, three stories with an oriel window on the top floor at the center, flowers in the window, like a set piece in marzipan.
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It's a television set piece, something entirely formulaic, earnest, goody-goody, proud of itself, overproduced.
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Astonishing action set pieces serve as punctuation marks for a piquant romantic melodrama in Zhang Yimou's second effort in the wuxia genre.
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While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film.
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Some spine-chiller set pieces are effective, but, as with the original, the concept is too silly and disorganised to cast a lasting spell.
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Through a series of fluid set pieces they widen their lead.
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The visitors resumed in good heart and their front five dominated in set pieces.
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The trial scene is a classic set piece.
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Representing England at Under-21 level this year, he marked his debut with a stunning goal against Holland in February and his set piece led to England's opener against Sweden in March.
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There are some great set pieces, all played at such a pitch that this comes to feel like a series of darkly satirical cabaret turns.
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The theatrical element of the show though never let up with various song and dance set pieces featuring trapeze artists, skateboarders, a tap dancer in top hat and tails, and even a dancing bagpiper.
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Rugby is more than a strong set piece, a kick-and-chase game and a goalkicker.
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Burnard interleaves this death, and its consequences, with vivid set pieces from the past.
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The trial scene is a classic set piece.
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Last week her set piece was a ripsnorter - peppered as it was, with traces of embedded humour - involving journalists, military mayhem, cover-up and collusion.
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The gameplay is always varied and diverse set pieces come often to bring great moments of excitement.
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Both films are vivid riots of colour, rhythm and violence, full of gun-toting gangsters and visually opulent set pieces.
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The novel's dirge-like tone may put off readers looking for the next Kite Runner, but Mengestu's assured prose and haunting set pieces ... are heart-rending and indelible.
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In the theater of memory, I see that it was a set piece: his concept was to lead our young minds through a chain of events culminating which is to say beginning, since he constructed his lectures as flashbacks in a mysterious, inexplicable event that ignited the creation of the world.
Seeking, Searching
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But this showing does not live up to the promise of their earlier set pieces.
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Some of his set pieces can conjure a more vivid image in the mind's eye than the surviving works of art themselves.
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Eulogies instead tend to be set pieces, delivered by commissioned rhetors, who do not know the deceased well, if at all.
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He modelled the way he bends the ball on Beckham; the same spin and swerve from set pieces.
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The show keeps hitting us with set pieces in its first part, which gives us the childhood years that adaptations often omit.
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The aim during the practice match, besides testing the combinations, was quick distribution of passes in match-like situation and fast taking of set pieces.
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To move the camera in and around the small stage space, many of the set pieces were set on castors and rolled about to keep out of the way of the camera.
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While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film.
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Re: Bremen's atrociousness, esp. at set pieces - don't people ever practice these things?" thunders Paul Szabo.
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They were like set pieces in their ongoing battle that these days was devoid of any real malice.
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Musical rhythm is based on the specific set pieces have been reflected in the beat.
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Cage seems unusually glum about his task, though Ron Perlman does get to headbutt Satan, and there's a tatty rope bridge across a chasm to give this dun-coloured trudge at least one hokily diverting set piece.
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The examinations, for which we learned set pieces, were held in Manchester at the Methodist Central Hall.
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The pack began to dominate in set pieces, and supply their nimble three-quarters with ample, quality ball.
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Hallucigenia" hits a good cross section of themes and set pieces central to my work -- hard bitten protagonists, dark cults, insanity, gratuitous rumpy pumpy, esoteric lore, super science, monsters, and cosmic horror all tangled up in pulp-noir webbing.
INTERVIEW: Laird Barron
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The trial scene is a classic set piece.
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It is gorgeously shot, a stunning film to look at, and contains a fistful of stunning set pieces.
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Elsewhere slum clearance activity was much more piecemeal and avoided spectacular set pieces.
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The first half of the play was pretty poor I thought consisting of not much more than set pieces - extracts from the public record - many of which we'd seen before on the TV.
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Scotland were defending deep, and defending in numbers but a threat on the counter and at set pieces.
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The "bookcases" —three triangular set pieces that moved and turned choreographically—became canvases for the disembodied Simon's feelings expressed through light, changing from throbbing, heavily saturated reds and yellows to the most delicate, unwavering pastels.
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One set piece in particular, a flashback scene showing Hauser in a violent, gladiatorial confrontation with his former boss an even hammier than usual Ben Kingsley takes place in a dilapidated theme park that looks to have been a replica of ancient Rome.
Hullabaloo
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The film is funny and exciting, with non-stop action and set pieces.
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Betty's numbers were always the highlight of the show, whether she was rollerskating across the stage in her 80s! or shimmying up some set piece.
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The Director rushes through the set pieces, drenching the sets in viscous gloop and blood as the bland supporting cast falls victim to the dual extra-terrestrial threat.
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The examinations, for which we learned set pieces, were held in Manchester at the Methodist Central Hall.
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The static set pieces would not be out of place in a picture gallery.
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The gameplay is always varied and diverse set pieces come often to bring great moments of excitement.
The Sun
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The manual encourages her to face up to the extent of her mendacity and list her lies, an exercise which allows Porter to go through a series of coquettish and flirty set pieces.
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The examinations, for which we learned set pieces, were held in Manchester at the Methodist Central Hall.
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There are also some animatics for the film's two big set pieces, a music video (indistinguishable from the film), and a couple of trailers.
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Other students performed their set pieces on the clarinet or violin.
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We look like we can score at any time now and we are looking dangerous from both set pieces and open play.
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Modestly ambitious and highly successfully within its chosen territory, Dead Snow proves to be one of the punchiest horror flicks in recent memory and one of the more capable within its low-budget constraints; the silent, lifeless landscapes make for a chilling tension-builder between each over-the-top set piece, while a memorable third-act shot of a character trapped beneath the snow is more nightmarishly claustrophobic than anything in The Descent.
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The big set pieces are impressive, but it all remains flat.
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Claude Debussy Paris, France, 1902This sensuous, Symbolist tragedy in 12 tableaux marks a radical departure: instead of arias and set pieces, the text is declaimed, inspired by Wagner, over an ever-moving orchestration.
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He handles the big political set pieces superbly, but also offers many whimsical vignettes.
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