Sentence examples for austere backdrop from inspiring English sources

Weissenstein's panoramic, monochrome landscapes provide an austere backdrop to the oratorio's pastoral subplot.

Smith is determined to win gold at the London Olympics - and as part of his mental preparations against an austere backdrop he is planning his next inspirational tattoo.

In housing terms this may be the "age of aspiration" as the housing minister said recently, but against an austere backdrop there is a long way to go before the supply of housing, or the ability of would-be home-owners to achieve their aspiration, are likely to show any significant pickup.

What artwork there is in the main dining room — Hindu processions painted in vibrant colors, ceiling beams inscribed in Sanskrit, earth-tone portraits — is set against a finely chiseled stonework wall and similarly austere backdrops.

The approach Mr. Wilson chose as he turned poems into a visual spectacle was to evoke a tableau vivant: his geometric décor and multicolored lighting created a backdrop of austere beauty for actors wearing imaginative masks and splendid costumes.

There was no personality in the ugly, austere furniture; against this neutral backdrop, even a piece of cloth would have been revealing.

Its austere aesthetic (a bluish-gray backdrop and vaporous lighting, a few chairs, an overturned bicycle, a ship's mast center stage) and slow, stylized pace are often reminiscent of a Robert Wilson stagescape.

But we enter another world in the second movement, which begins with a muted, austere chorale for strings that becomes a backdrop for the piano's questioning, eerie melodic phrases.

At Praia, I turned inland, climbing dusty hairpin bends until Aieta revealed itself, perched on a rocky promontory, grey and austere, its buildings clustered together against a backdrop of snow on the higher peaks of the Pollino.

Using his native Taipei as a backdrop, Tsai distills the complexity and alienation of city life into films that are austere, unhurried and emotional, but also comical.

His austere fashion images communicated elegance and luxury through compositional refinement and clarity of line rather than through the use of elaborate props and backdrops.