Sentence examples for as a backdrop that from inspiring English sources

The resulting award-winning off-Broadway smash "Sakina's Restaurant" was, as the title alludes, set in an Indian eatery in Manhattan, deliberately chosen as a backdrop that would be familiar to non-Indian audiences.

It's important to us that we don't just use it as a backdrop, that we engage with its performance-art history".

It's important to us that we don't just use it as a backdrop, that we engage with its performance-art history".** **The cemetery was founded in 1838, she told us, as a "cemetery for the living"—a resting place, of course, but a place for the public to enjoy.

It is with all this as a backdrop that we believe it is especially important, precisely when our faith communities are at the tipping point, to join together and reach out to each other.

Rolling Stone's Ken Barnes, describing the musical style of Radio City, opens by noting as a backdrop that the band's debut, #1 Record, established it as "one of the leading new American bands working in the mid-Sixties pop and rock vein".

Some are closely cropped images; in others she is set against a backdrop that, as Ms. Sherman describes it, "are clues that tell a story".

The set, coordinated by scenic designer Brendan Boston, can be described as minimalist at most, with a backdrop that occasionally lights up, old rumpus room-style chairs and carpets, and magazines and comics.

The imposing architecture and decoration of Fatimid buildings such as the al-Hakim mosque provided a backdrop that supported the dual role of the Fatimid caliph as both religious and political leader.

"I don't dwell on Vietnam; I draw on it," said Mr. Ridge who, with a similar margin of removal, recalls the feverish antiwar protests at Harvard as a fascinating backdrop that did not draw him away from his studies.

So is making use of the Hudson Valley views as a rich backdrop that changes magically as twilight deepens into night, an effect that worked particularly well for the production I caught of "Troilus," which began at 6 p.m.

It's these effects — on real people, not merely as a Hollywood backdrop — that the N.Y.C.L.U. is focussing on.