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Example sentences for "settings"

Lexicographically close words:
settest; setteth; settin; setting; settinge; settis; settle; settled; settlement; settlements
  1. The settings move with the same cinematic rapidity which Chariton employed: from Sidon to Berytus, to the sea and shipwreck, to Pelusium and Alexandria, to Ephesus and the great court scene, to Byzantium and back again to Tyre.

  2. Simple costumes and stage settings satisfy the children, and the setting of the stage or platform for the scene should, in most cases, be done before the children.

  3. The story presented may furnish many funny settings which the pupils may enjoy with abandon.

  4. The first act of Orfeo ends in a tumultuous effect of the stringed instruments which was evidently intended to indicate a change of scene and the appearance of the stage settings of the infernal regions.

  5. Some stage settings which I wanted for the prologue were declared impossible--I have seen them since in the Tales of Hoffman.

  6. The unique stage, with all its settings of blue, green, red and gold, was bare.

  7. Before her the stage, all dark, seemed a mysterious cave where a hundred bandits might hide among the settings of some imposing scene.

  8. If you bring these plays to a performance for others outside your own class, you will find that the simplest and least pretentious settings are generally most effective.

  9. By signs that cannot be doubted has it been shown that the spectre that brought desolation to the earth was slain by the magic arrow just seven settings of the sun past.

  10. Seven settings of the sun ago the arrow was sent on its flight into the darkness; but where it struck I cannot tell.

  11. His famous settings of "The Passion" will be noticed in their proper place, and so will the influence of his orchestral compositions.

  12. These stones had all been broken from their settings and thrown loose in the chest.

  13. The settings themselves, which we picked out from among the other gold, appeared to have been beaten up with hammers, as if to prevent identification.

  14. She had heard his Te Deum, and some of his strange settings of words from the scriptures.

  15. And his lack of belief probably emanated from the fact that Claude's settings of words from the Bible were not well suited to his own temperament, talent, or training.

  16. Nobody has ever heard his really fine work, his Te Deum, and his settings of sacred words.

  17. She is best known in America by her songs, which are really beautiful settings of Browning, Shelley, Longfellow, Heine, and other great poets.

  18. Grove considers the best of these to be the settings of Herrick and Shelley; he gives high praise to her setting of the latter's "My soul is an enchanted boat," and considers it one of the finest songs in our language.

  19. Yes, Aunt Jerry," Eugene responded, fitting himself gracefully into the settings of this summer retreat, with a look of steady penetration coming into his eyes as he took in the face before him.

  20. How could she understand the temptation to the soul of an artist in such lovely settings as "Eden" offered?

  21. She belonged to the soft and lovely settings of life.

  22. The data on settings of wings, tail, etc.

  23. June 23, and the balancing at that time was evidently correct for the settings of the tail which were then used.

  24. It will be observed that settings of Shakespearian Songs of a later date than the generation immediately succeeding Shakespeare's death are not noticed.

  25. The large number of settings of the 18th century, by such men as Arne, though interesting musically, have nothing whatever to do with the student of Shakespeare and the circumstances of his time.

  26. It is a very charming song, not in the least like the settings of the same words to which we are all so accustomed, but none the worse for that.

  27. As for the other settings of these lyrics, +G.

  28. As there has been so little music composed for this play, I will give a short account of as many settings as I can find of the solitary lyric contained in it.

  29. You can take your choice; both settings are equally good.

  30. The Encyclopaedia Britannica definitely says that Johnson's settings are the original.

  31. You will find that the stories in this collection are of different types with settings that take you in imagination all over our own country and into foreign lands.

  32. Little Aliens contains nine stories, of which the settings are all in the homes of the children.

  33. The stories in the volume range in their settings from Paris to a middle western university town.

  34. Most of the stories in her first volume, Little Citizens, have their settings in the schools.

  35. Yet when poor Schubert about the same period sent him a number of his finest Goethe settings the Olympian did not even deign to acknowledge them!

  36. For these the settings below the doors at stage left must be decidedly pushed back or they will lose important action by the fireplace.

  37. On the other hand, recently dramatists have rather overdone reducing possible settings to the minimum.

  38. What, then, is the would-be dramatist to do when faced by six or more settings to a five-act play, or two or three settings within what he believes should be an act?

  39. Today we should in many cases exchange a number of settings as used in eighteenth century plays for one setting.

  40. Such reducing of possible settings to two or three for a play of four or five acts requires practice, and, in some cases, decided ingenuity.

  41. Nowadays descriptions of settings are noticeably free from the mystic R.

  42. May it with ingenuity be guessed from the settings and costumes?

  43. A list of dramatis personae should be followed with a statement of the time and place if they are important, and of the settings for all the acts.

  44. It must tell him where the play takes place--that is, what the settings are, and in such a way as to create atmosphere if anything more than a mere suggestion of background is desirable.

  45. His imagination illumined fitfully a scene of mountains and blasted heaths, as artificially wild as his heroines were artificially sensitive; to modern readers they resemble too much the stage-settings of melodrama.

  46. The untamed power of Macpherson's wild natural settings is also striking.

  47. If it is preferred to sing them in unison, the modal settings will be a guide to the accompanist.

  48. To give four-part settings of any of these early tunes calls therefore for an explanation, which I will give as briefly as possible.

  49. There is one novelty which I am responsible for introducing, namely the four-part vocal settings of certain early plain-song melodies.

  50. An explanation of the notation of these settings is given in the note to Hymn 29.

  51. Wood of Cambridge for two settings and occasional reading of music proofs; in which latter task I gratefully record the help of Mr. J.

  52. There are three settings for the height of the blade instead of the usual two.

  53. It has a steel lever release and three settings for blade height.

  54. The rectangular lancet, also made of brass, with an iron lever release and three settings for the height of the blade, is unusual in that it is triggered by a slide catch on the facing side rather than by a lever on top.

  55. In the first place I would set the tuning of the antenna circuit and of the crystal circuit about where you think right because of your knowledge of the settings for other wave lengths.

  56. You will have the advantage when you come to this of knowing very closely the proper settings of the antenna circuit and the secondary tuned circuit.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "settings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.