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Sentence Examples Her ethereal vocals soared over a backdrop of lush guitar licks, deep bass and softly crashing drums during their stunning half-hour set. Tall ships and historic vessels were used as a backdrop for a recreation of a 19th Century Naval clash, set to sound and music. It's a comic-relief part, but situated in a suitably worthy backdrop, and it affords the actress big moments of pathos as well. The economic reality of the Pacific Northwest lumber industry is an important backdrop for thinking about reforestation. This is the backdrop against which we consider reforming Canada's political institutions for the twenty-first century. He was pale, his freckles stood out in stark relief against the white backdrop of his cheeks and his reddish hair was aflame. It's the backdrop because football is considered a religion worldwide and the most viewed game. The African village required construction of yellow and black native huts, palisades, sacrificial altars, and jungle backdrop. The kitchen is fully fitted but some may find the yellow pine units and visible modern appliances jar with the backdrop of ancient stonework. The teak double-glazed windows contrast with the creamy yellow render, and shades of yellow form the backdrop for much of the interior. The story is a gothic ghost story set amid the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. Misty evenings and star-studded night skies form the perfect backdrop for late night partying. It makes for a dramatic backdrop to explore cuisine of Senegal, Cameroon and Mali, among others. To provide a backdrop to this foliage-ruled leafscape, use climbers to link together canopies of leaf. The sun was climbing steadily in the sky, a backdrop for the magnificent palace of Ipille. Overweight barmen slosh mojitos on the counter at great haste and orders are shouted against a backdrop of salsa and rumba. Old Masters, though, are usually hung on a tastefully restrained backdrop and lit as close to daylight as can be managed. It may seem odd to see people rigging sails on their ships in space at first but what a glorious backdrop this is. The skirl of the bagpipes provided a stirring backdrop, and his skin tingled with excitement. On the apron of the stage, with a black backdrop the two bare legged women wore black short shorts. Show More Sentences These body parts stand in relief against shadows gathering under the studio lights, the subject posed against a roll of white backdrop paper. Here the view itself provided the catalyst as Ron created a living space offering a backdrop to the panorama, rather than the other way round. The sunset created a backdrop for the world's top steer wrestlers, team ropers, barrel racers and bronc riders. His main backdrop at the museum will be the Easton and Amos rotative beam engine. The horror of the Naxalite movement in the Bengal of the 1970s forms a backdrop to these. In Sarajevo we found an overwhelming energy and bustle set against a backdrop of the ruins of dilapidated buildings. It was an athletic event held against the backdrop of race, war, religion, and theatrics. This has a dark flagstone floor, exposed roof beams, a Stanley oil-fired range with a tiled backdrop and an attractive stone surround. The simple mache salad alone would have been a better backdrop on which to serve this flavoursome duck. He manages to create a believable world of automatons and clockwork mechanisms against a backdrop of the real world. Adding an extra magical touch were the mechanical swans on the lake backdrop and the beautiful sparkling tulle costumes. With this fast Indian fish curry, the refreshing tang comes from fresh ginger, while spices combine to give a complex backdrop of flavour. The one thing that provided sanity to a whole generation growing up in the backdrop of racial tension was music. Against such an awe-inspiring backdrop it's impossible not to look amazing, and they did. The directors' faces look cut out, almost as if by hand, and fit awkwardly against the mountain backdrop. I've painted a backdrop and I have some taxidermal crows that I've mounted. Under a brilliant moon and against the backdrop of Aberdeen Bay, the Freetown Caledonian Society held its first Burns Supper in five years. The patterns on the stage and against the backdrop were beautiful, the movement sensual and relational. It continues for over a minute and moves several yards across the stage and into the backdrop promoting the fight. Typically, such painting might be placed on a theatre backdrop, or across a large hall or church nave, or on a high ceiling. Show More Sentences The stage backdrop is filled with smoke and the curtains have become brown drapes, some halfway across the stage. Shakespeare's magical comedy will be played out against a simple backdrop of parkland scenery, he said. This movie is a work of fiction, but it's played against a backdrop of historical events. These discussions take place against a backdrop of deepening economic crisis and rising social tensions. This year's event is taking place against a backdrop of Government attempts to promote chess in schools. I looked at the subject, the old chair, the cloth and the backdrop of the city through the windows behind, and frowned. Set against a backdrop of Alpine lakes and mountains, this city has the perfect mix of folk tradition and fast-moving modernity. This is happening against a backdrop of fights by environmentalists to get old dams torn down. The building demonstrations come against a backdrop of continued violence in the country. Old insights are merely recycled in different permutations against a backdrop of current circumstances. The case comes against a backdrop of mounting national concern about replica firearms. Already overshadowed by political complexity the elections will also take place against a backdrop of violence. Against a backdrop of steadily declining music sales, music companies have been forced to think of alternative solutions. The summer tourists have gone, leaving plenty of space to enjoy the many activities on offer against the backdrop of outstanding scenery. Greenland is a country of stark contrasts, where ice and sunshine, greenery and snow are partners against a backdrop of fjords and mountains. The familiar stories are given new life when played out against a backdrop of ancient Roman ruins and sweeping rocky vistas. There were snow-capped peaks against a backdrop of liquid blue sky, for as far as I could see. Behind you is a gorgeous, restored great house set against a backdrop of rainforests and mountains. They survived, but Todd has been forced to work against a backdrop of continuing financial uncertainty. As we come up over a rise, endless cultivated orchards stretch for many kilometres against a backdrop of blue mountain ridges. Show More Sentences It can be hard to beat the classic combination of scarlet berries against a backdrop of glossy green leaves. The brilliant scarlet sky which provided a backdrop to the ship's arrival helped persuade the five judges the picture was tops. It was a vote which lead to shocking scenes of ethnic violence against a tropical, picture-postcard island backdrop. The story is told by Shankar himself, against a bewitching backdrop of Indian scenery. The director's commentary explains that in the space scene, no cuts could be made without ruining the continuous drift of the backdrop. The success comes against the backdrop of the match-fixing crisis that has gripped Italian domestic football. Alicia had placed a group of advent candles on the windowsill and their flames were flickering merrily against the backdrop of the night. In a time of barbarous cruelty, the human menagerie forms the backdrop to our story. Against this backdrop of anarchy and violence, politicians attempting to frame the country's new democracy are floundering. This is top-notch entertainment set against the backdrop of a Mediterranean village and will entertain every age group. The noisy decamping of the occupying soccer army is often played against the backdrop of a portrait of this columnist shaking his fist. Against the starry backdrop about a dozen or so tiny, cone-like dots appeared, and buzzed around the wreckage. If you have a white toy poodle, you would want to place her on, or in front of, a black, blue or brown backdrop. This gorgeous picture postcard scenery provides a backdrop for over 200 km of downhill and cross-country skiing trails. It made a perfect backdrop to photograph a huge shoal of bib and pollack, which jostled each other for position. The story is a family affair against a backdrop of dirty dealings in the underground transport system. By night the city becomes a lavishly evocative backdrop to leisurely trawls round its restaurants, clubs and bars. Oversized shocking pink bears filled the backdrop, plastic watches and cheap costume brooches and bangles were crammed in the front showcase. It's a lush, romantic epic about lovers in a fatal emotional triangle, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. Against the backdrop of Hoi An's river and shophouses, it has a distinct charisma to itself. Show More Sentences By then, Gavin had changed the backdrop from a misty purple to a soft shade of creamy pink and had readjusted the lighting to a warm glow. In this work, imagery is presented literally as a backdrop, reinforcing the mnemonic power of the artist's presence rather than representing it. The inflationary backdrop has thus far largely destroyed the old-line U.S. airline and auto-parts industries. As Arthur and I venture into the depths of the region, a stunning backdrop and cloudless sky sets the scene for meeting the painter. At the time, she tweeted a picture of them both smiling at the camera in front of a backdrop of the Aspen mountains in Colorado. There, standing in silhouette against a backdrop of open sky and sweeping land, stood a man and his dog. The voting took place against a backdrop of bloodshed, with at least 44 people killed by suicide bombs. Skaters circle a section of ice set against a backdrop of pine-covered rolling hills. With the sun glistening on the small village bay and boats bobbing on the water, the backdrop is reminiscent of a scene from a tourist brochure. What was once an empty backdrop of a starry sky was filled with a bright, silvery object. The only visual indication of the passage of time is a skyscape projected onto the backdrop. Once on top of the cage, Michaels took a body slam and a backdrop onto the steel mesh. The jagged Cuillin ridge, featuring 12 of Scotland's 284 Munros forms a glorious backdrop. With two floors of windows, natural wood, river rock and slate, it makes a perfect backdrop for the captivating view. The remote village in Nalgonda district is an almost unfitting backdrop for the swank school building. The stippled backdrop is unornamented, increasing the tight focal emphasis on the figure. What is most interesting about this movie is the gradual disappearance of native inhabitants and even of the mountain as backdrop. I see why it would have been mortifying, especially against the psychological backdrop of the snakepit that was your school experience. The best way to see it is on foot, along the five-day Druk Path between Paro and Thimpu, camping against a backdrop of towering snowcaps. The garden rooms are defined by tall hedges of broadleaf evergreens that provide a backdrop for large pots planted with flowers. Show More Sentences Against a backdrop of political intrigue, police corruption, and her own tortured history, she brutally exacts her revenge. A suburban landscape, neatly mowed lawns, trees in bud, faces I have known all or the better part of my life, the backdrop of my childhood. The vamp becomes a backdrop for an improvised duet between the vibes and cello. As part of the city's celebration Margot Fonteyn danced Swan Lake with the Lake as a backdrop. It contains substantial villas set within landscaped grounds and a number of mature forest trees which provide a green backdrop. Even the backdrop of hurtling bungee jumpers at the Olympic Park can't distract him. Our guides lead us in yoga as dawn light dances on the redrock spires that form the backdrop of our camp. Both are bright and generously sized, with rich burgundy walls providing the backdrop to a most unusual timber floor with inlay. The backdrop was a big sheet of butcher paper covered in hand-written poetry. Not surprisingly, the Nordic region's vast forestlands form the backdrop for much environmental history writing. Buchanan Street's George Hotel was the essential backdrop for any film director looking to portray urban squalor. The grey granite exterior is calculated to render the lodge almost invisible against the looming backdrop of the hill. With their evergreen, glossy leaves camellias look good year-round and make an excellent backdrop for summer flowering plants. This classic tale of star-crossed lovers is performed in the open-air with the magnificent backdrop of Titchfield Abbey. Sculptor and installation artist Susan Meyer Fenton is haloed against a wrinkled and therefore turbulent backdrop. Chilly evenings and star-studded clear night skies offer a perfect backdrop for late night partying during the season. The more recent phase of integration has occurred against the backdrop of globalization. These notes display the wide range of the Thurman canon against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance. These are Cantabrigian stories, told with a firm awareness of a wider British backdrop. The backdrop to the visit, led by the prime minister in his capacity as EU president, is the relatively poor showing of British exporters. Show More Sentences At the end of the road stood a canvas covered caravan and beside it a tiny theatre, a miniature stage with a black curtain backdrop. We'd be old friends looking at an old moon, against the backdrop of lit-up Chicago. A few still-life paintings hang in the backdrop and some dark wood pieces as well as sheer curtains frame the room. The sounds of Icelandic volcanoes provide a haunting backdrop to the scene. All this is done with a wink and a smile, lots of witty one-liners and a backdrop of upbeat music. Avebury stone circle would provide the perfect backdrop for a Neolithic theme ceremony. The history of the Virginia colonies is set against a backdrop of the descent into open conflict with Spain. When one is caught in the stranglehold of addiction, all other concerns become a backdrop to the craving for the next dose, the next big fix. A hellish landscape of fire, smoke and death formed a backdrop for a bunch of kids a long way from home who were just doing their job. It's there like the sets in an opera, a backdrop for acting out Oedipal fantasies and all sorts of Sturm und Drang. The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains. These make a refreshing change from the usual red and look lovely against a backdrop of dark green spiny leaves. So the drums are the stars for a change, while the melody provides a haunting backdrop. Against this backdrop, Cincinnati voters distinguished themselves by keeping their cool in the face of a high-pressure campaign to sell the road. For a movie that seems contrived as a backdrop for madcap hilarity, there's precious little hilarity to distract you from the backdrop. Ironically, given the backdrop of the American Revolution, the charlotte is a dessert with roots in England. We sit on the shore, toes in warm sand, watching the small sailboats race against the backdrop of sugar pine and perfect blue sky. The ornate Gothic church directly across from her home provided a dramatic backdrop as the summer sun went down. Well-known film actresses often posed prettily in elegant cheongsams against the backdrop of idealized gardens or home settings. Community business was often conducted on the all-sand eighteen-hole golf course, with the Giza Pyramids and the palmy Nile as a backdrop. Show More Sentences The country's large current account surplus has also continued to grow against a backdrop of steadily deteriorating global growth. Acres of sumptuous white swags were effective as a backdrop, but most impressive of all was the thrilling singing by the lead roles. The decision was made against a backdrop of outright hostility towards Lisa from staff at her station. One of the first herbs to appear in the spring, sweet cicely makes a becoming backdrop to a perennial border. The political backdrop is a huge and hugely successful public access arrangement. It is, instead, boisterous and noisy and in its way, joyous, its political backdrop merely an occasion for more parkour. The prison setting ultimately serves as a backdrop to the deeper question posed by the film, namely, can a claymation skit hold water. The story plays out against a gritty, hyperreal New York backdrop that seems to be drenched in a perpetually oppressive, insipid drizzle. Against a painted Antarctic backdrop of glaciers, icebergs and floes, groups of stately Emperor penguins pose like actors at curtain call. The backdrop of the mountains lends to the idyllic setting of Killoughternane. All these problems were set against a backdrop of war and accentuated by ill fortune. The main building, constructed during the British regime, with its imposing clock tower provides an impressive backdrop. And we feel for them all the more as we imagine all human lives, our own included, against this backdrop of absolute zero. Life here is shrinking, the horizons drawing in, and the backdrop to our small world seems to be fading and becoming indistinct. To prove that he is not being obstinate, the author gives his disembodied gray-day poetry a backdrop of white picket-fence perfection. The local is thus not conceived as existing inertly against a backdrop of global forces, but rather as constructed through this dynamic. Today, the global backdrop is one of general economic strength and heightened inflationary pressures. However, the inflationary backdrop and monetary policy are very different from the times of previous oil price rises. A backdrop of mountains and glaciers, and condors soaring high overhead, make this the perfect antidote to the bustle of every day life. It is exactly about the stipulation that warrants inscription of the numbers and letters in black against a white backdrop. Show More Sentences No doubt, our earliest ancestors performed for each other in caves with firelight as a backdrop. A massive firework display provided a stunning backdrop as the lights flickered into life. It is just that, here, all life's dramas are played out in front of the most spectacular backdrop you could hope to find. Every moment of existence is measured and judged against the backdrop of this pleroma. From snobbery to inverted snobbery, fox-hunting has become a useful backdrop for those with a different agenda. Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit. As the lights go up the rigging falls through the trap door and the backdrop appears to be sucked inwards towards the centre of the stage. The rallying dollar, sinking crude, and surging financial stocks do today create a rather inspiring backdrop for the optimists and Pollyannas. Attitudes about nature as backdrop, commodity, enemy have been dug out and re-animated as if they were not ancient corpses moldering and corrupt. It should provide him with the perfect backdrop for an incisive portrait of a world unfamiliar to the general viewer. There is an orange backdrop to the following quotes from two widely diverse locations. The first crisp, clear day of moderate wind should provide a glorious backdrop for staunch points over big coveys. His approach, though, put the texts in the foreground against the backdrop of a social context, and my own is somewhat different. The white backdrop resembles a fringed altar cloth, with small fir trees stitched in the bottom portion. In the shop windows that line it, screens of frosted glass provide a backdrop for mannequins. The curtain raises on the opening scene with the cast gathered front of stage to a backdrop of trees, a small camp fire Flickering to one side. Some of the images, such as local Web cam cuties frolicking against a colourful backdrop, look elaborately directed. Like Heinlein, Smith built a detailed future history of the human race as a backdrop for his writing. A magnificent cycloramic backdrop augments the proceedings adding a regal touch of glamour to this already imposing display. It was against this backdrop of economic vulnerability that rising income taxes and death duties proved so painful. Show More Sentences Remote-sensing and other geospatial data provide an accurate and visually compelling backdrop in which to embed related data and models. A dazzling orange ghaghra suit on a mannequin formed the backdrop for the media interaction. He creates a play of black and blue colours to set the backdrop and on this he places three boats, with bright lights gleaming from them. Against this backdrop, Roh should wait patiently until the Constitutional Court delivers its final verdict. This is all set on a backdrop of a larger presence within the galaxy, an ancient civilization that left floating derelicts in space. Against this backdrop one can begin to understand the lack of ecumenism among these movements, despite their shared goal or commitment. The lion roaming in a field with Manhattan as a backdrop really captures the dichotomous feeling of the record. Majestic great egrets, stark white against a backdrop of greens, browns, and blues, stood like motionless ballet dancers along the water's edge. The only quibble is that the greeny blue it chose as a backdrop is a bit irritating on the eye. More than 200 motion pictures have been made using the gridiron as a backdrop. The magnificent surroundings of Ripon Cathedral will form the backdrop to a black-tie gourmet dinner in September for 220 guests. That he also directed the film and supervised the CGI backdrop just adds to the remarkable nature of the production. As their force in our culture wanes, that culture risks becoming a backdrop for escalating rivalry among disconnected individuals. It looked magnificent and was a suitable backdrop for the divertissements of the wedding celebrations. Her country's epochal events form the colorful backdrop for her breathless and episodic recounting of her own journey of self-transformation. Then, over the high, exposed moorland road, with a backdrop of hills still decorated by shrinking dollops of snow, the race began to splinter. It improbably and effectively twists a simple rural do-si-do rhythm into a creepy backdrop. In addition, the film's relentlessly downbeat tone creates a dark emotional backdrop. He will talk briefly on these too, with a backdrop of dramatic mountain scenery. The same interlocking melodies with the simplified drumbeats that serve as a backdrop are present in these recordings. Show More Sentences If you're really, really lucky, you might get to see Tyra Banks doing a Victoria's Secret photo shoot using the fountains as a backdrop, wahey! All this is set against the wild mountain backdrop which surrounds the walled garden in the distance. It is a river town in Borneo that is little changed from a century ago when it served as the backdrop for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. The action of the story divides between this rural backdrop and Helsinki, to which Eeva eventually flees. The lights radiated around it, clearly visible against the black backdrop of night. The beautifully melodic piece has an elegant string backdrop and joyously infectious style. It's a surprisingly nice backdrop in which to enjoy Italian classics at bargain prices. Against the backdrop of Lewis Castle, a whirligig of ceilidhs, concerts and workshops takes place. The plot really is the weakest part of the film, existing solely as a backdrop to pin some killer stunts on. Set as a backdrop, these colourful stems provide an excellent foil for the wintersweet. A sumptuous domed Byzantine basilica, an imaginative recreation of St Mark's Alexandrian church, dominates the backdrop. Despite this backdrop, Kirsten Dunst radiates excitement when she comes to talk about melancholia. Terminal illness makes a fantastic, fun-filled irreverent backdrop for black comedy, exploding with comments on humankind's barbarian invasion of the planet. Against this backdrop, Paul breaking bread with Sharpton may be too much for Republican primary voters to watch or stomach. Within the larger political backdrop, ISIS survived and grew into the menace that it is today. At times, it reads as if he is describing the backdrop of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Who Bares Wins is set against the backdrop of a remote community eagerly anticipating the arrival of the rambler and also explores society's attitudes to nudity. The backdrop was set in 1992 with the introduction of modern efforts to protect biodiversity in the face of so-called biopiracy, the stealing of local genetic material. He grafts stories of a Borgesian imaginativeness onto a real backdrop. A herd of wild horses galloped across the pampas, tossing their heads in a display of wild exuberance, against a backdrop of snow covered mountains. Show More Sentences What prompted you to pick the fall of the Berlin Wall as the backdrop for your thriller? The long-time friend of the rocker and his family made a series of drawings of Ramone which was projected as a backdrop for the musicians appearing in concert. The album is laced with acoustic instruments placed over a backdrop of seamless ambient electronics and soft trip hop grooves, with chilled jazzy undertones throughout. Contemporary belief stories and older myths intermingle to create the rich mythic tapestry that forms the backdrop to vernacular and alternative religiosity there. Metaphysics, as traditionally conceived, is very arguably ineliminable and conceptually necessary as the intellectual backdrop for every other discipline. All of this is playing out against a backdrop of ferocious political rivalries and discord in the capital of Sanaa. A gilded New England chimney glass of about 1835 provides a handsome backdrop for the Paris porcelain garniture, about 1820 to 1825, on the mantel. He whips out his blackberry, recording a video selfie against the neighborhood backdrop. Issues of cultural appropriation and colonialism come to the surface against a backdrop of often confusing or nonsensical vignettes from various Tintin stories. The core of the story is set against the backdrop of the Iraq invasion, the buildup, and the immediate aftermath. The film has unmemorable guitar and rock music as backdrop for action. The second remix of the track, done by Subtitle, skews and detunes the guitar, pushes the bass to the front, and uses it all as the backdrop for the MC's layered rapping. The trial proceeds in a frescoed courtroom with the unlikely backdrop of a massive wooden crucifix hanging above the jury. Against this backdrop, the founders of the ADL made their organization a kind of mirror image of the Klan. The south-west stand is dug into the hillside to create a Piranesian undercroft of stairs, lifts and concourses set against a backdrop of living rock. The bustle of the newsroom is a mere backdrop for self-involved characters to give talky speeches and taunt each other. This multisided power struggle is taking place against a backdrop of major political changes in Mogadishu as well. An impressive grand-scale set was constructed complete with a waterfall as the backdrop. This is without taking into account the backdrop of party politics. The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night. Show More Sentences The final portion of the song is its shining moment, a powerful distorted guitar and the pounding piano provide a strong backdrop for a shrieking theremin. Set against a backdrop of strings, the mandolin sounds completely beautiful, providing an enticing blend of sadness and hope all at the same time. A theater on the 2nd and 3rd floors will have back and side walls of glass allowing a backdrop of a clear view of the harbor or controlled filtering down to complete blackout. In response to Roy's death, her parents draw strength from their faith, while Alison struggles with hers against the backdrop of puberty's growing pains. I found some wonderful metal screens in a variety of sizes and decided they would make a nice backdrop for the assemblage pieces using my vintage trinkets. The sky draped as a backdrop for the crimson harvest sun like a painting in a majestic golden frame embellished by great brush strokes from a master's hand. He carefully laid out the stones it contained on the material and then brought the table lamp over so that she could see them sparkle against the dark backdrop. In shantytown, the titular slum of Buenos Aires is the backdrop for a series of killings that threaten the entire community. This is the story of violence, betrayal, love, and survival told in a series of monosyllabic guttural sounds, set against the backdrop of volcanic eruptions and pterodactyls. On the screen was a white silhouette against a black backdrop. Soon the chorus joins in, silhouetted row above row in glowing orange ovals behind a black backdrop before the whole thing dissolves to a street scene. There, Gobber printed the text in plain red capital letters on a white backdrop, evoking nothing so much as a grocery window sign advertising the price of produce. The Swiss have for long tempted Indian film-makers to use the Alps and other picturesque locales as the backdrop for romantic interludes in Bollywood films. It complements and harmonises with the historic landscape and backdrop, and draws inspiration from many classical elements such as the Bothy Garden's Formal Terrace. The backdrop of bright, white crisp snow could not have been more of a contrast to the jungle setting in which Ally Taylor was kept captive by Colombian guerillas. The clothes are worn by 10 models of color as they stand against a wooded backdrop. Still, the music, though admittedly provocative, almost always plays the role of sonic backdrop to her ridiculous tangential meditations, which ultimately sink the album. The backdrop is a seedy, exciting and evocative Auckland, with characters ranging from gang members, wealthy and elite crims, concert pianists, farmers, hippies and neo-Nazis. Reproductions of wallpapers and carpets that might have been used in the house in the early nineteenth century form the backdrop for the museum's collection. Most of the stripped down monologue consists of a topless Dee Dee baring his soul and his scabrous white chest, which starkly contrasts against the black backdrop. Show More Sentences For this number, the black backdrop behind the stage is suddenly raised to its full height, and is illuminated up with thousands of tiny pinpoints of light. Look again at the snippet of Anne Frank film while holding in mind a backdrop of recent events. It is almost obligatory for any new Edinburgh resident to wax lyrical over the cultural backdrop that the castle, the festival and the tattoo give to the city. Anne, looking demure in a little black dress, took the microphone in front of a backdrop advertising Herriot Country to thank voters for her increased majority. Yet, from all accounts, she came pretty close to erecting a large shopping complex which would have become a rather incongruous backdrop to the Taj Mahal. The storyline turns disastrous, all against the barren, volcanic backdrop of Spanish island lanzarote. It is also home to some of the world's finest spa resorts, making a perfect location for relaxing against a backdrop of hazy mountains and the desert. And the incongruously bright, cheerful Haitian sky surely is a winning backdrop. The movie is set against the backdrop of Apollo 11's landing on the moon. Yank the summer beachball backdrop and roll in the back-to-school yellow pencils, the scrapy noise of leaf rakers, the harvest of pumpkins, knee socked girls in wool kilts. Against a picturesque backdrop, our sailors charted the course to glory, confirming their position as the most successful team within the British ranks. The wall behind her is made of cardboard and painted a peacock blue, and it functions in spatial terms as a studio backdrop. The bare stage and black backdrop are occasionally relieved by smoky atmospherics that evoke perhaps a run-down dance hall in a beachy part of town. Red soldierfish blend into the colourful backdrop of encrusting sponges on the wreck of the Corveta va Ypiranga, a 60m dive at Fernando de Noronha. Against this sulfurous backdrop, Democrats and Republicans alike feel compelled to man the ramparts for their core constituencies. Amid this backdrop Sir John ordered the General Post Office covertly to monitor the King's telephone calls. Its original castellated red walls, souks and the backdrop of the Atlas mountains to the north are exactly what its inhabitants have been surrounded with for centuries. The closing minutes and stoppage time produced much in the way of drama, albeit played out against the surreal backdrop of supporters streaming towards the exit. Even the tomato sauce accompanying his delightful goat cheese rosti is special, tasting of ripe, red fresh tomatoes against a mellow winey backdrop. Venice as a city has seemed irrelevant, a storied artifact of a Romantic past that serves merely as a decorous backdrop for an event geared toward utopian futures. Show More Sentences Arriving in Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship, she is a splash of brash American colour against a backdrop of a dour Britain in the grip of Fifties austerity. This impression is reinforced by the panoramic curve of the back wall, which, even though it is painted a uniform dark grey, suggests a cyclorama or stage backdrop. More verve and vivacity, but this time with a Victorian backdrop. Behind Steve is a snazzy backdrop of the Vancouver skyline at night. It was a fitting backdrop for the Paris debut of his perfectly calculated, spare gray suiting. A bright blue storefront, heavily pockmarked with gunfire, is the backdrop to a wrecked, bullet-bashed car. At the same time, they have faced an uphill struggle to continue investing in networks against a backdrop of falling stock markets and huge debts. But he successfully manages to shake up the predictability of the Lost Generation backdrop. Much of the weed was cleared out to allow easy angling, though plenty of silver birch, rowan, alder, sycamore and pine remain to provide a scenic backdrop. Newman ushered the study of church history into modernity in England by contextualizing it with the concerns of modernity, yet he did so with heresy as the backdrop. Set on an empty stage in front of a medium blue backdrop that in midstream turned blood red, the men were set free to relish their youth and power. In Australian literature, the bush is usually more than a backdrop. Located high on a central plateau, with the Auas Mountains serving as a backdrop, it is not uncommon to spot kudu and other antelope shortly upon arrival. Come September, attractive ferny foliage is a backdrop to yellow, lemon-peel flowers, which mix with fascinating tousled seed heads as the flowers drop. The purple hues of the early evening sky paint a picturesque backdrop against the silhouettes of domes and Spires. Behind the house is a border like a theatre set, its foreground dashed with red, yellow and blue of flowering bushes against a backdrop of a hundred greens. Bill was carrying a pair of 7x50 binoculars, which gave him a closeup look at the rugged coastline with fleecy white clouds hovering over the mountain backdrop. The latter film offered a melancholy gloss on high-end tourism against the antiseptic backdrop of a Hyatt Hotel in downtown Tokyo. And the thankfully near full moon was magically radiant in its slight yellowness, divinely suspended in nothingness amid the sequined backdrop of stars, planets and galaxies. The cyclorama backdrop shifted to create a new lateral space on stage. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of backdrop? Words that rhyme with backdrop What is the past tense of backdrop? What is the plural of backdrop? What is the noun for backdrop? Translations for backdrop Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words backdraught backdraft back down from back down backdown backdoors backdropped backdrops backed backed up backend back-end 8-letter Words Starting With b ba bac back backd backdr backdro