Sentence examples for I backdrop from inspiring English sources

It is therefore no surprise that when, in 2009, Dali's Act I backdrop for "Mad Tristan" was found in a box at the Metropolitan Opera and offered on loan to Daniele Finzi Pasca, the director of a Swiss physical-theatre troupe, the deal was accepted.

In Act I the backdrop is a huge blowup of a surreal portrait of the voluptuous Lulu, dressed only in underclothes and wearing incongruous angel wings, that the Painter is working on as the lights go up.

I drew a backdrop that I just had hand-sewn for me.

So I got some backdrops I thought would go with those colours, and at 8am she turned up at the studio with her makeup woman and a few outfits and we went to work".

Against that backdrop, I guess I find it unlikely that a fairly esoteric debate about procreation, which took place mostly among the chattering classes, had a significant impact on the people who are actually abandoning marriage.

I painted backdrops and collected receipts at the puppet shows.

This infrastructure provides the contextual backdrop (i.e. the constants) against which evidence will be adduced about actual operative policies, procedures, people and places.

For my image of Beth Ditto (left), for example, I used a pink backdrop because I knew it would work well with her style.

With warbling swallows as backdrop, I nodded off before I'd even turned a page.

Joe Brainard: "I remember a backdrop of a brick wall I painted for a play.

Against that all-too-familiar backdrop, I'm wondering how I'd advise a daughter who came to me with a description of school hallways she hates to walk down because every fourth boy has found a fresh new way of making a lewd gesture.