Mr. Romney could be seen standing at a lectern in front of a backdrop that had the logo of the Detroit Economic Club.
Mr. Romney could be seen standing at a lectern in front of a backdrop that had the logo of the Detroit Economic Club, the event's host.
One gesture that this work has in common with "Pipa" -- and with "Avatars," the solo piano work that closed the concert -- is the use of sudden, dissonant bursts, set against a backdrop that had been unfolding gradually and insistently.
Keys played on a piano on a stage with blue lights in front of a backdrop that had tall buildings.
While the basic premise is the same as your Idols and X-Factors, the level of talent and athleticism of the dancers set against a musical backdrop that has given shine to dozens of underground or less-than-mainstream artists proves more substantial than the rest.
As had been predicted, Grand Theft Auto V swaps Liberty City, the gritty, faux-New York setting of GTA IV, for San Andreas, a thinly fictionalized California backdrop that has been used by GTA before.
Sitting under a soaring ornamental ceiling in a museum near the Seine, Gov. Jerry Brown gave thanks for the political backdrop that has enabled California's tougher environmental rules.
Not every youngster has the affluent backdrop that has helped Guan's emerging career.
The language traces the history of its land, the backdrop that has given birth to much rich writing with resonance far beyond Central Europe.
It's that kind of legal backdrop that has made some commenters question the outing of the neo-nazi and white nationalist participants in the rallies in Charlotte.
When Prospero played with lucid understatement by the stage veteran Simon Russell Beale reminded Ariel of his former confinement in "a cloven pine," tree limbs writhed across the stage; when he described "the baseless fabric of this vision," he gestured toward a fabric backdrop that had, sure enough, descended just short of the stage's base.
