Sentence examples for backdrop from the from inspiring English sources

Saturday's caucus in Nevada will unfold against mountains and deserts, a far different backdrop from the first four states.

Terence McInerney has a panoramic painting of a royal procession, with a lush, humid forest backdrop, from the Deccan.

Conflicts, onslaughts, displacements and betrayals were a backdrop from the middle ages to the late 20th century.

The team identified what was at the greatest risk of being ruined, including a sodden tapestry backdrop from the 1930s, he recalled.

Or dine in the courtyard of a converted old house with a backdrop from the Mughal empire at Olive, near the Qutb Minar.

The "Blossom Time" tavern garden will be discovered intact in the warehouse once the smoke has cleared, along with a temple or two from "Sinbad," & every wing & backdrop from "The Passing Show of 1916".

All of these groups would create the backdrop from which the New Age movement emerged; as James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton point out, the New Age movement represents "a synthesis of many different preexisting movements and strands of thought".

Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of the radical Dutch firm OMA, it will be a gravity-defying, 755-foot-tall monument to architectural derring-do — an audacious beacon and backdrop from which the images of a newly ascendant China will be beamed across the globe, one year from now, during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

I borrowed old historical backdrops from the museum, and period costumes from a TV wardrobe department.

An enormous video screen offered a shifting display of lush backdrops from the theater's glorious history.

The couple begin to guide the wall through various spectacular landscapes, and the wall assumes the color of the backdrops, from the incandescent green of flora near a waterfall to the warm tan of a hayfield to the reddish brown of a mountain setting.