Sentence examples for background colourful from inspiring English sources

The banner depicts, on a green background, colourful imagery of the different stages on the way to heaven (Fig.  4b, detail).

Make the ground colourful.

Alla, a French-born, English-speaking, Oxford-educated writer, has a background as colourful as one of his theatre's plays.

But many people he spoke to also criticise the United States, which is seen as a democratic country that now supports Central Asia's despots in the name of oil.Mr Kleveman feeds his argument with enlightening historical background and colourful anecdotes from his extensive travels and interviews.

A few visual threads run through Beach's stock: "We're from a skateboarding background, so colourful graphics, zines and self-publishing have been our guiding aesthetics from day one," Charlie says, as he picks up a pair of ornamental ceramic dogs that look like they've had their cocktails spiked.

Louise Mensch is a new Conservative MP who, by the current, Milibandish standards of MPs, has a colourful background.

Newens, 29, from Kingston in Surrey, the festival coordinator, is less flamboyant than Alla but has an equally colourful background.

Dumas's main interest was the creation of an exciting story set against a colourful background of history, usually the 16th or 17th century.

This is the 21st century; you should be free to wed whomever you choose – even if he has a somewhat colourful background.

Most of Pisanello's painted portraits, such as the Margherita Gonzaga (c. 1438), and Lionello d'Este (c. 1440), show the sitter in profile (a convention of Pisanello's portrait medals) against a background of delicate, colourful flowers and butterflies.

"The Bayern Munich midfielder, with the English steelworker dad and Welsh mother, may have a colourful background, but as a player he is as Lancashire hotpot as his native country.