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Yet despite its foundations of well-crafted prose it never sings, and the backdrop to Gaudí is surely the massed voices of choirs and angels.
This is society in manic movement, and the backdrop to it is a city that seems to be perpetually leaning over its inhabitants like a roaring drunk about to vomit down a bystander's neck.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 — The sky was overcast, not dark, and the backdrop to Sunday's game was old and leaky, not new and charming, but take all that away and the Mets were back in an all too familiar place.
In 1953 Williams-Ellis, who died in 2007 aged 89, took over the loss-making souvenir shop at Portmeirion (the whimsical Italianate village her father Clough designed in the 1920s – and the backdrop to cult TV series The Prisoner).
Its 250 acres are home to a variety of themed vertical gardens and conservatories, including a series of 100-foot concrete "supertrees" that resemble oversize stone palms, each dripping with ferns, orchids and bromeliads and the backdrop to a nightly laser show.
They will dominate and form the backdrop to many of the speeches and debates at the NHS Expo in Manchester today and tomorrow.
That the Nazis pioneered the deployment of technology and film to prey upon Germany fascinates McBurney, and is the backdrop to his play.
Its narrow streets have appeared in scenes in Emmerdale, and were the backdrop to many episodes of Heartbeat.
Barack Obama has appealed for an end to the "sharply polarised" debate that has consumed American politics in recent years and provided the backdrop to the aftermath of the bloody assassination attempt against a congresswoman in Tucson.
As much as Sam Newman might argue this is a war between networks and personalities, the backdrop to the punishment for women who challenge male authority is a dark picture of gender-based violence.
These include attempts to save failing relationships, finding out about my father's death, and being the backdrop to the marriage proposal of my recently deceased ex-fiancée.
