Sentence examples for backdrop on which from inspiring English sources

Best of all is Brian Leaver's set, which includes framelike panels on wheels to suggest walls, a flickering chandelier for one scene and a backdrop on which he has painted trees — a small grove of slender ones on one side and a single gnarled old tree on the other.

The piece is set against a huge backdrop on which images of racism, violence and dance are projected.

For Act I, Dali painted a vast backdrop on which Tristan (presumably) appears with a dandelion head.

Nearby, another painting showed a model on a catwalk against a blue backdrop, on which was written, "Greece, next economic model".

Its industrial minimalism and jagged rhythms drew stylistically on underground house and grime, a backdrop on which sat some of the sculpted synths of 80s disco and vogue.

Seated in front of a backdrop on which the words "Call me Ishmael" were clearly visible, the "Today" team explained how a debut novel by a 21-year-old unknown had snagged this distinction.

For a brief moment in the '70s, Columbia, Md., was proof that color and class were just backdrops on which to form incredibly deep, real and lasting relationships.

Madonna and her dancers emerged from behind backdrops, on which Timbaland and Timberlake appeared, to perform their lines.

Wooden floors, brightly painted walls and polished concrete shower rooms form a simple backdrop on to which the carefully collected souvenirs – from intricately woven rugs to punched metal lanterns – have been subtly displayed.

For decades physicists have been inclined to take space for granted as an eternal backdrop, the stage on which particles and forces commune and reality unfolds.

But at the building's very top, unhinted at by the rest of the structure, graceful, dark-green turrets pointed like onion domes send up narrow spires whose star-and-crescent symbols manage to find a backdrop of empty sky on which to silhouette themselves.