Sentence examples for backdrop providing from inspiring English sources

"Magic Mike," though set in and around Tampa, treats the setting like a backdrop, providing plenty of mood and tone but no dramatic particulars.

John's remark is meant to peg him as insensitive, but that's all that the momentous change in the nation's status is for "Tangerine": a distant, colorful backdrop providing thematic echoes of the intrigue on center stage.

The sculpture of a young Marine is set against a polished black-granite backdrop, providing what Victor described as a mirror effect, where the Marine's face in profile can be seen in reflection.

Competitors at Lord's will shoot against the backdrop provided by the late-Victorian Pavilion, perhaps the most famous building on any cricket ground.

When the city was first built, its mountainous backdrop provided natural protection against attack by the enemies of the then colonial ruler, Spain.

The Program's deep laboratory backdrop provides a strong flow of clinical specimens for cutting-edge molecular characterization, often linked to clinical annotation.

This she does against a backdrop provided by the Games of Ceres, which feature as a particular highlight the attachment of blazing torches to the tails of foxes.

Also on view are works by Alexander Calder and H. C. Westermann, which add to the historical backdrop provided by Mr. Rauschenberg's show downstairs.

And as most of the action takes place at David's home or workplace, neither backdrop provides particularly compelling scaffolding, although David's interactions with frail elderly people show the film at its most tender and interesting.

You never for one second doubt that Lib trained under Nightingale and the Crimean elements, far from being mere backdrop, provide a whiff of something properly violent and agonising that permeates the whole novel.

The spiritual backdrop provided by readings of the Tao Te Ching and the obligatory support group seem a bit cheesy, but the authors do seem to be on to something.