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To backdrop
noun
A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
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From the cat's-eye view, the human drama, in which 13 people were saved, is relegated to backdrop.
Consider the aimless, abandoned wife in the opening story, "Happy Love," whose failed marriage is relegated to backdrop status, dispatched in a few telegraphic words: "No one died from infidelity".
But Spain knew this was a lost cause, only awaiting the final whistle, and the best opportunity of a second half that was played out to backdrop of Chileans celebrating was actually at the other end, where Sánchez put his close-range effort over the bar.
I'm relegated to backdrop.
Swerving his kiss on stage in a room of their peers, with the world watching, is basically the pop star equivalent of saying "no" when a man hires a Disney flashmob to backdrop his marriage proposal.
The production is impeccable and he managed to backdrop several centuries worth of misdeeds and assorted acts of oppression against today's global economic structure, showing that colonialism died in name only; the ambitions of conquistadors and colonialists endure among global powerhouses in more subtle but equally insidious expressions and practices.
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Two flanges on either side of the stage gracefully narrow to a backdrop open to Santa Fe's distant mountains.
The music belongs less to the dancers than to their backdrop.
The makes fascinating reading – and is illuminating as to the ideological backdrop to development policy.
War continues to be a backdrop to our daily lives.
Commuters, in particular, travel to the backdrop of those voices.
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