Sentence examples for backdrop of pale from inspiring English sources
– to set against a ubiquitous backdrop of pale, measured perfection.
She showed the small board with two clouds of bruised color floating against a backdrop of pale peach to Ann Freedman, the new president of Knoedler, New York's oldest art gallery.
The lobby's Egyptian bas-relief panels and marble floors look to Luxor, but guest rooms are more contemporary, with European mahogany side tables and tailored armchairs set against a backdrop of pale blues, greens, and cream, splashed with bold, French floral wall linen.
Its members are pictured against a backdrop of millennial pink — a phalanx of pale men with tattoos, beards, exposed chests, linen button-downs, and all the accoutrements of early-stage gentrification, their expressions sheepish but insouciant, as if they're finessing a lie.
It was against this backdrop that Mr. Simons sent a parade of pale skinny white men parading through the shrubbery, bony limbs clad in shorts and shirts and jackets in an array of unnatural hues.
To create a unified backdrop, he poured a luminous resin floor in a shade of pale gray he devised with the help of Mr. Kaufman.
The other key ingredient is color: dabs of pale pastels to subtly indicate a skyline backdrop or interior wall; fiery Bonnard chords of fall color to stake out the various centers of dramatic interest.
Although the year's NATO summit was held jointly by Germany and France, the German women's association football (soccer) team won the European championships for the fifth time running, and a German economic recovery was predicted, all paled against the backdrop of the elections.
A skinny streak of pale flesh.
It is this definition of pale from which the phrase "beyond the pale" is derived.
End point indication: appearance of pale yellow.
