stage set
- a variation of stage setting.
Example Sentences
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During dark Phildickian nights of the soul, everything can start to seem mere sham, all the world a stage-set, men and women merely players.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017
Bleached skulls were tacked to the outside wall of a stage-set saloon; rusting wagon wheels leaned at angles.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017
Hercule Poirot, Albert Campion and Lord Peter Wimsey stride through stage-set simulacra of London and the Home Counties, displaying attitudes that Alan Bennett nailed as "snobbery with violence".
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012
Every street corner was a stage-set of human interaction, no behavior too small to be insignificant.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2012
Still, in the silence of the night, when the city lost its stage-set normality and operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thoughts she had repressed during the day.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
