Sentence examples for a background detail from inspiring English sources

At the same time, a sense of the fugitive, the unscripted moment or a background detail seen by happy accident should be visible to counteract any idea that the meeting had been set up.

So Proust savored the image of an obscure Dutch painter's attempting "a score of times" to render a "patch of yellow wall" -- a background detail that few observers could be expected to notice, let alone appreciate.

The warm haze is not just a background detail, as in, say, "The Beeches" by Asher B. Durand; it's the star of the picture, expanding to fill almost the entire canvas.

A camel-bone and pottery-inlay mirror that looked like a background detail in a Matisse study was $1,200; the number of unusual, intricate knickknacks for under $100, including mint tea glasses and spice jars, appears as limitless as Aladdin's cave.

An example: that bearded man sounding off on the TV whom Jack and Patience watch nightly with horrified fascination might seem like a background detail, thrown in for verisimilitude, but you'll discover his shattering consequences for the story towards the end.

Landscape is often richly described but relegated as a background detail before the early 16th century.

My 12-year old protagonist Louise Lambert is on the swim team and it's just a little background detail you might not pick up on, but to me it says so much about her character and if you get it you really get it.

Instead of pressing "like" or paying the compliment, pick up on an irrelevant background detail, eg "Is that the Ipswich branch of Nando's?" or "Your skirting board could do with dusting, lol".

Where Longfellow's woodpecker appears as a deus ex machina, Tolkien brings a wealth of colour, background detail and depth to make the sudden upturn in The Hobbit unexpected but explicable.

Every panel, every background detail, every interlude, whether a vaudeville song or a beat-style short story or seemingly wholly unrelated pirate horror comic, counts.

This is a small but evocative painting that includes some marvelous background detail of Lower Manhattan and vessels berthed at the wharves along the Hudson River.