Sentence examples for a subtle backdrop from inspiring English sources
The décor in the dining room is but a subtle backdrop for the huge windows, which reveal water vistas and an inviting deck with umbrella tables.
The only nonconventional element of the presentation was a screen behind the piano on which projected colors and slowly shifting images provided a subtle backdrop.
Most of the salvias, which love cold weather, can be put outside around the same time, and will grow into stocky plants, their slender leaves providing a subtle backdrop for other flowers.
It was a not so subtle backdrop that dominated the campaign, later rehashed in nearly every article written about the two female candidates.
It shows: "The Amateur Spy" offers a gritty verisimilitude against a subtle political backdrop.
During long passages the solo instruments have ruminative, intimate exchanges over a subtle orchestra backdrop, and it is difficult to maintain balances.
It was the often-not-so subtle backdrop for the state Republican convention that year, with Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno saying, for example, "I was never prouder to be a Republican than when I stood at ground zero shortly after that horrific act with Gov. George Pataki".
This thick rice porridge makes a subtle, but splendid, backdrop for the sour, rosy and softly wrinkled pickled plums (umeboshi) that jolt me, and my palate, awake.
It's a subtle story of ideological battle set against a backdrop of social change.
It makes a wonderful light sauce with a subtle nutty, buttery flavor that serves as a complementary backdrop to all kinds of spring dishes.
