The phrase "against scenery" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning without context.
It could potentially be used in discussions about contrasting elements in art, literature, or film, but clarity would depend on the surrounding text.
Example: "The character's emotions were starkly against the serene scenery of the landscape."
Alternatives: "in contrast to the scenery" or "opposed to the scenery".
Beauty died four days before a show at the Empire theatre – apoplexy caused by overfeeding – while The Great Lafayette perished in a 1911 fire at the theatre after a lamp fell against scenery.
Optimistically billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel: Savage has constructed, against scenery "vast and hostile to individual hope", a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation – particularly of Rose, for whom living becomes "so narrow that she brooded nights on what to wear the next day", and the monstrous Phil.
It was just unclear how to read it against kitsch scenery.
Set against dramatic scenery, rugged wranglers with weathered faces lived intensely, played hard and smoked contentedly.
The rider fell off all the time, but when he did he plummeted into ravines and bashed against photorealistic scenery, screaming in terror.
Holiday lovingly reconstructs this episode from Dante's confessional work The New Life, while setting it against the scenery of Florence a Victorian tourist might recognise.
Later, a group of storm troopers try to blast through a door, but get caught up with each other, aimlessly stumbling against the scenery.
No matter how hard Mr. Cruise squares his jaw or flings his body over and against the scenery, and despite the presence of Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who trickle into the story to aid in Jack's journey, "Oblivion" never transcends its inspirations to become anything other than a thin copy.
If I were writing a tourist brochure, I might put it this way: Gunrunning, gem and opium smuggling, tribal blood feuds and bandoliered killers set against breathtaking scenery give the region in general, and Peshawar in particular, a briny, edge-of-the-abyss charm but don't let that stop you from going.
When the locale finally shifts to Moscow and then the Caucasus, and the Ingush rebels appear, they're dignified and noble, dispensing gruffly heroic aphorisms as they pose against the scenery; it's the revolt of the cigar-store Indians.
