Meaning of set piece | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of freestanding stage scenery.
2. Any carefully planned sequence of operations, especially as part of a military operation.
3. An elaborate and interesting scene in a movie or video game, usually the most important and visually iconic scene in the work.
4. Any planned strategy that a team uses after play is restarted with a free kick, penalty kick, corner kick, goal kick, throw-in or kickoff.

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Examples

“set-piece battle”

“What’s so great about the episode is it takes its time. The first 30 minutes of this 79-minute behemoth—a model⟳ for season eight’s reportedly extended run-times—are a single set⟳ piece, the big parlay in the Dragon Pit at King’s Landing.”

“The message is that Hynkel is not a brilliant strategist or a mighty leader. He is an overgrown adolescent – as demonstrated in the sublime set⟳ piece in which he dances with an inflatable globe, dreaming of being "emperor of the world".”

“Roberto Carlos is deadly from set⟳ pieces.”

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