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scene

noun as in part of a dramatic performance

noun as in display of emotion

noun as in field of interest

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Kiarostami sets up a scene in which a young schoolboy returns his peer’s notebook, now torn.

But though England in the late 16th century is an utterly alien time and place, and it feels that way in some early scenes, Ms. Zhao grafts onto her setting an intrusive 21st-century sensibility.

After a laborious setup of some 40 minutes, Blanc finally starts nosing around the scene.

Behind the scenes, the rollout was marred by a headache.

The Ness of Brodgar – a strip of land between two lochs - was the scene of 20 years of excavations until work officially ended in 2024.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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