Sentence examples for backdrop from which from inspiring English sources

McNabb's draft-day disaster cannot be overstated, because it is the backdrop from which he works.

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.

And there were other great photographers who would somehow coalesce around Eggleston…people like William Christenberry, Lee Friedlander, and others…that provided a tremendous "school" for me to attend, a great backdrop from which to be inspired.

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".

In that context, our review of cross-sectional studies referring to earlier versions of the population surveys used in this analysis provides a historic backdrop from which to interpret our findings.

However, metapopulations are also precisely the sort of ecological backdrop for which one expect discrepancies between the evolutionary outcomes derived from clonal reproduction and diploid genetics, because substantially many mutant homozygotes appear locally even though the mutant is rare globally.

The objective, of course, is to exploit the porch as an evocative backdrop, a Norman Rockwell podium from which to address middle-class America.

That show expressed the futuristic modernity of streamlined tailoring against a backdrop of moving escalators, from which Mr. Simons, for the first time, showed his face at the finale.

Fashion images from the '50s and '60s capture proto-supermodels like Dovima, Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree and Veruschka in inventive street settings, and later, against the stark minimalist backdrops for which Avedon became known.

With the backdrop of all of this, I approached the various biblical texts from which I will craft next Sunday's homily.

The Islamist support pervading the northern working class suburbs drives home that the circulation of ideas and practices cannot be divorced from the socioeconomic backdrop against which it occurs.