set piece

It opens with a bombastic set piece, but it was far less compelling than many of the little, dialogue-driven conflicts that arose.

These big, set-piece events shove the royalty in their face.

This is going to be another high-testosterone showdown set piece.

Those were the set-piece questions of what used to be called classical education.

And the immigration set piece seems potentially quite staggering.

In the meantime, the trees line the avenues in skeleton rows, like a pyrotechnic set-piece before it is ignited.

There is contrast enough, but he contrasts set-piece with set-piece, scene with scene, not act with act.

The on-set piece and facing may be cut from one piece, but the fitting is more troublesome.

At the last set piece there was a tremendous shout of "Long live the King!"

There was an impression that a set piece had been prepared, and that this was its beginning.