Sentence examples for a simple backdrop from inspiring English sources

Wooden floors, brightly painted walls and polished concrete shower rooms form a simple backdrop on to which the carefully collected souvenirs – from intricately woven rugs to punched metal lanterns – have been subtly displayed.

Mr. Gingrich used his first television appearance of the night to speak to a ballroom of reporters, without applause or signs, standing before a simple backdrop as he outlined his strategy.

The bright, stylishly mustard walls, parquet floor, Windsor-style chairs, banquettes and booths are a simple backdrop for some delicious, fresh-tasting food on a menu that also features a few pastas and pizzas.

At 9 and 10 30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; cover, $15. (Chinen) BROKEN ARM TRIO (Friday) This tribute to the bassist Oscar Pettiford features Erik Friedlander's self-assured pizzicato cello playing against a simple backdrop of bass (Trevor Dunn) and drums (Mike Sarin).

White walls accentuate the brightness of the space and provide a simple backdrop for the couple's modern furnishings — Ikea cabinets arranged in Tetris-like blocks on the kitchen wall; and in the living room, a sofa from LS Designs in Tel Aviv flanked by an Eero Aarnio Ball chair that was a wedding gift; and a black leather chair Ms. Barak found on the street and had restored.

The Conservatives chose a simple backdrop of a union jack for their manifesto launch in Swindon.

The venue of choice is a beautiful beach on the edge of the Atacama desert, which makes for a striking yet simple backdrop for the drama.

One date in particular is glorious: in Tokyo, on May 23 , 1963 a crew of smart visual and audio technicians placed one of Monk's greatest bands, with Rouse, Butch Warren, and the incandescent Frankie Dunlop, against a simple modernist backdrop and let them blow.

"This is the view directly outside of my studio, it is the first thing I see when I walk outside and is one of my favourite walls in London...I have no idea why but I love the scale of all those little bricks and the simple backdrop it makes, I have shot a lot of people up against this wall".

"Astonishment," which will be performed on Oct. 6 at the JCC MetroWest in West Orange, is not a play, but a staged reading with simple backdrops painted by Laura Schreiber, the book's illustrator and Ms. Slepian's frequent companion.

This essentially Puritan strain in Wilson's thinking makes his characters reductive, simple silhouettes projected onto an even simpler backdrop.